Bug 2348904 (CVE-2025-21810) - CVE-2025-21810 kernel: driver core: class: Fix wild pointer dereferences in API class_dev_iter_next()
Summary: CVE-2025-21810 kernel: driver core: class: Fix wild pointer dereferences in A...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21810
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-27 21:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-28 05:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-27 21:02:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

driver core: class: Fix wild pointer dereferences in API class_dev_iter_next()

There are a potential wild pointer dereferences issue regarding APIs
class_dev_iter_(init|next|exit)(), as explained by below typical usage:

// All members of @iter are wild pointers.
struct class_dev_iter iter;

// class_dev_iter_init(@iter, @class, ...) checks parameter @class for
// potential class_to_subsys() error, and it returns void type and does
// not initialize its output parameter @iter, so caller can not detect
// the error and continues to invoke class_dev_iter_next(@iter) even if
// @iter still contains wild pointers.
class_dev_iter_init(&iter, ...);

// Dereference these wild pointers in @iter here once suffer the error.
while (dev = class_dev_iter_next(&iter)) { ... };

// Also dereference these wild pointers here.
class_dev_iter_exit(&iter);

Actually, all callers of these APIs have such usage pattern in kernel tree.
Fix by:
- Initialize output parameter @iter by memset() in class_dev_iter_init()
  and give callers prompt by pr_crit() for the error.
- Check if @iter is valid in class_dev_iter_next().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-28 05:14:41 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022754-CVE-2025-21810-0c14@gregkh/T


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