vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2025-38265: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 18, 2025
Added
Dec 5, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

serial: jsm: fix NPE during jsm_uart_port_init

No device was set which caused serial_base_ctrl_add to crash.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000050
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 368 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.12.25-amd64 #1 Debian 6.12.25-1
RIP: 0010:serial_base_ctrl_add+0x96/0x120
Call Trace:
<TASK>
serial_core_register_port+0x1a0/0x580
? __setup_irq+0x39c/0x660
? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x111/0x310
jsm_uart_port_init+0xe8/0x180 [jsm]
jsm_probe_one+0x1f4/0x410 [jsm]
local_pci_probe+0x42/0x90
pci_device_probe+0x22f/0x270
really_probe+0xdb/0x340
? pm_runtime_barrier+0x54/0x90
? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10
__driver_probe_device+0x78/0x110
driver_probe_device+0x1f/0xa0
__driver_attach+0xba/0x1c0
bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0xe0
bus_add_driver+0x112/0x1f0
driver_register+0x72/0xd0
jsm_init_module+0x36/0xff0 [jsm]
? __pfx_jsm_init_module+0x10/0x10 [jsm]
do_one_initcall+0x58/0x310
do_init_module+0x60/0x230

Tested with Digi Neo PCIe 8 port card.

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