Bug 2376411 (CVE-2025-38183)

Summary: CVE-2025-38183 kernel: net: lan743x: fix potential out-of-bounds write in lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-04 14:04:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: lan743x: fix potential out-of-bounds write in lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get()

Before calling lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get(), the 'channel' value
is checked against the maximum value of PCI11X1X_PTP_IO_MAX_CHANNELS(8).
This seems correct and aligns with the PTP interrupt status register
(PTP_INT_STS) specifications.

However, lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get() writes to ptp->extts[] with
only LAN743X_PTP_N_EXTTS(4) elements, using channel as an index:

    lan743x_ptp_io_event_clock_get(..., u8 channel,...)
    {
        ...
        /* Update Local timestamp */
        extts = &ptp->extts[channel];
        extts->ts.tv_sec = sec;
        ...
    }

To avoid an out-of-bounds write and utilize all the supported GPIO
inputs, set LAN743X_PTP_N_EXTTS to 8.

Detected using the static analysis tool - Svace.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2025-07-04 18:09:51 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070411-CVE-2025-38183-1283@gregkh/T