CVE-2025-68238 (GCVE-0-2025-68238)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 14:08 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
mtd: rawnand: cadence: fix DMA device NULL pointer dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mtd: rawnand: cadence: fix DMA device NULL pointer dereference
The DMA device pointer `dma_dev` was being dereferenced before ensuring
that `cdns_ctrl->dmac` is properly initialized.
Move the assignment of `dma_dev` after successfully acquiring the DMA
channel to ensure the pointer is valid before use.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
0cae7c285f4771a9927ef592899234d307aea5d4 , < 2178b0255eae108bb10e5e99658b28641bc06f43
(git)
Affected: 099a316518508be7c57de4134ef919b2dea948ce , < 9c58c64ec41290c12490ca7e1df45013fbbb41fd (git) Affected: e630d32162a8aab92d4aaebae0a8d93039257593 , < e282a4fdf3c6ee842a720010a8b5f7d77bedd126 (git) Affected: ad9393467fbd788ac2b8a01e492e45ab1b68a1b1 , < b146e0b085d9d6bfe838e0a15481cba7d093c67f (git) Affected: 0ce5416863965ddd86e066484a306867cf1e01a8 , < 0c635241a62f2f5da1b48bfffae226d1f86a76ef (git) Affected: d76d22b5096c5b05208fd982b153b3f182350b19 , < 0c2a43cb43786011b48eeab6093db14888258c6b (git) Affected: d76d22b5096c5b05208fd982b153b3f182350b19 , < 5c56bf214af85ca042bf97f8584aab2151035840 (git) Affected: a33c7492dcdf804b705b6c21018a481414d48038 (git) Affected: 5.10.235 , < 5.10.247 (semver) Affected: 5.15.179 , < 5.15.197 (semver) Affected: 6.1.130 , < 6.1.159 (semver) Affected: 6.6.80 , < 6.6.118 (semver) Affected: 6.12.17 , < 6.12.60 (semver) Affected: 6.13.5 , < 6.14 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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