vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-38300

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Added
Oct 10, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025

Description

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

crypto: sun8i-ce-cipher - fix error handling in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare()

Fix two DMA cleanup issues on the error path in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare():

1] If dma_map_sg() fails for areq->dst, the device driver would try to free
DMA memory it has not allocated in the first place. To fix this, on the
"theend_sgs" error path, call dma unmap only if the corresponding dma
map was successful.

2] If the dma_map_single() call for the IV fails, the device driver would
try to free an invalid DMA memory address on the "theend_iv" path:
------------[ cut here ]------------
DMA-API: sun8i-ce 1904000.crypto: device driver tries to free an invalid DMA memory address
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 69 at kernel/dma/debug.c:968 check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90
Modules linked in: skcipher_example(O+)
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 69 Comm: 1904000.crypto- Tainted: G O 6.15.0-rc3+ #24 PREEMPT
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Hardware name: OrangePi Zero2 (DT)
pc : check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90
lr : check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90
...
Call trace:
check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90 (P)
debug_dma_unmap_page+0xac/0xc0
dma_unmap_page_attrs+0x1f4/0x5fc
sun8i_ce_cipher_do_one+0x1bd4/0x1f40
crypto_pump_work+0x334/0x6e0
kthread_worker_fn+0x21c/0x438
kthread+0x374/0x664
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

To fix this, check for !dma_mapping_error() before calling
dma_unmap_single() on the "theend_iv" path.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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