CVE-2025-38425 (GCVE-0-2025-38425)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 14:16 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
i2c: tegra: check msg length in SMBUS block read
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: tegra: check msg length in SMBUS block read
For SMBUS block read, do not continue to read if the message length
passed from the device is '0' or greater than the maximum allowed bytes.
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
d7583c8a57485da19feb6dd85573763a8c5ec1d1 , < c39d1a9ae4ad66afcecab124d7789722bfe909fa
(git)
Affected: d7583c8a57485da19feb6dd85573763a8c5ec1d1 , < be5f6a65509cd5675362f15eb0440fb28b0f9d64 (git) Affected: d7583c8a57485da19feb6dd85573763a8c5ec1d1 , < 75a864f21ceeb8c1e8ce1b7589174fec2c3a039e (git) Affected: d7583c8a57485da19feb6dd85573763a8c5ec1d1 , < 3f03f77ce688d02da284174e1884b6065d6159bd (git) Affected: d7583c8a57485da19feb6dd85573763a8c5ec1d1 , < a6e04f05ce0b070ab39d5775580e65c7d943da0b (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.95 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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