Bug 2393165 (CVE-2025-38693)

Summary: CVE-2025-38693 kernel: media: dvb-frontends: w7090p: fix null-ptr-deref in w7090p_tuner_write_serpar and w7090p_tuner_read_serpar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-04 16:02:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: dvb-frontends: w7090p: fix null-ptr-deref in w7090p_tuner_write_serpar and w7090p_tuner_read_serpar

In w7090p_tuner_write_serpar, msg is controlled by user. When msg[0].buf is null and msg[0].len is zero, former checks on msg[0].buf would be passed. If accessing msg[0].buf[2] without sanity check, null pointer deref would happen. We add
check on msg[0].len to prevent crash.

Similar commit: commit 0ed554fd769a ("media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()")

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2025-09-22 13:34:09 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025090450-CVE-2025-38693-aeb5@gregkh/T