CVE-2025-38142 (GCVE-0-2025-38142)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) check sensor index in read_string()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) check sensor index in read_string()
Prevent a potential invalid memory access when the requested sensor
is not found.
find_ec_sensor_index() may return a negative value (e.g. -ENOENT),
but its result was used without checking, which could lead to
undefined behavior when passed to get_sensor_info().
Add a proper check to return -EINVAL if sensor_index is negative.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
[groeck: Return error code returned from find_ec_sensor_index]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 6bf529ce84dccc0074dbc704e70aee4aa545057e
(git)
Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 4e9e45746b861ebd54c03ef301da2cb8fc990536 (git) Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 19bd9cde38dd4ca1771aed7afba623e7f4247c8e (git) Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 7eeb3df6f07a886bdfd52757ede127a59a8784dc (git) Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 25be318324563c63cbd9cb53186203a08d2f83a1 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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