CVE-2025-68213 (GCVE-0-2025-68213)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:57 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:02
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Title
idpf: fix possible vport_config NULL pointer deref in remove
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: idpf: fix possible vport_config NULL pointer deref in remove Attempting to remove the driver will cause a crash in cases where the vport failed to initialize. Following trace is from an instance where the driver failed during an attempt to create a VF: [ 1661.543624] idpf 0000:84:00.7: Device HW Reset initiated [ 1722.923726] idpf 0000:84:00.7: Transaction timed-out (op:1 cookie:2900 vc_op:1 salt:29 timeout:60000ms) [ 1723.353263] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 ... [ 1723.358472] RIP: 0010:idpf_remove+0x11c/0x200 [idpf] ... [ 1723.364973] Call Trace: [ 1723.365475] <TASK> [ 1723.365972] pci_device_remove+0x42/0xb0 [ 1723.366481] device_release_driver_internal+0x1a9/0x210 [ 1723.366987] pci_stop_bus_device+0x6d/0x90 [ 1723.367488] pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x12/0x20 [ 1723.367971] pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0xbd/0x120 [ 1723.368309] sriov_disable+0x34/0xe0 [ 1723.368643] idpf_sriov_configure+0x58/0x140 [idpf] [ 1723.368982] sriov_numvfs_store+0xda/0x1c0 Avoid the NULL pointer dereference by adding NULL pointer check for vport_config[i], before freeing user_config.q_coalesce.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bd80fbf3ed250ca98923780dab5e634db5d2f828 , < a0e1c9bc1c9fe735978150ad075616a728073bc7 (git)
Affected: e1e3fec3e34b4934a9d2c98e4ee00a4d87b19179 , < d5be8663cff0ba7b94da34ebd499ce1123b4c334 (git)
Affected: e1e3fec3e34b4934a9d2c98e4ee00a4d87b19179 , < 118082368c2b6ddefe6cb607efc312285148f044 (git)
Affected: 5e87b3145578a169839e456fa0aba86e123d2d8e (git)
Affected: ba11b0f3e9a97661f6caeee3dfc633af8ecee5a5 (git)
Affected: 6.12.43 , < 6.12.60 (semver)
Affected: 6.15.11 , < 6.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.16.2 , < 6.17 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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