Bug 2389498 (CVE-2025-38559)

Summary:	CVE-2025-38559 kernel: platform/x86/intel/pmt: fix a crashlog NULL pointer access
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:04:15 UTC

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

platform/x86/intel/pmt: fix a crashlog NULL pointer access

Usage of the intel_pmt_read() for binary sysfs, requires a pcidev. The
current use of the endpoint value is only valid for telemetry endpoint
usage.

Without the ep, the crashlog usage causes the following NULL pointer
exception:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:intel_pmt_read+0x3b/0x70 [pmt_class]
Code:
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? sysfs_kf_bin_read+0xc0/0xe0
 kernfs_fop_read_iter+0xac/0x1a0
 vfs_read+0x26d/0x350
 ksys_read+0x6b/0xe0
 __x64_sys_read+0x1d/0x30
 x64_sys_call+0x1bc8/0x1d70
 do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x110

Augment struct intel_pmt_entry with a pointer to the pcidev to avoid
the NULL pointer exception.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-08-19 21:43:49 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025081906-CVE-2025-38559-9fa1@gregkh/T