CVE-2025-38301 (GCVE-0-2025-38301)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 07:42 – Updated: 2025-07-28 04:18
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Title
nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem: unbreak driver after cleanup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem: unbreak driver after cleanup Commit 29be47fcd6a0 ("nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem_probe cleanup") changed the driver to expect the device pointer to be passed as the "context", but in nvmem the context parameter comes from nvmem_config.priv which is never set - Leading to null pointer exceptions when the device is accessed.
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Linux Linux Affected: 29be47fcd6a06ea2e79eeeca6e69ad1e23254a69 , < c8bb1bcea877446f86922a8fd1661b8c07d90e5c (git)
Affected: 29be47fcd6a06ea2e79eeeca6e69ad1e23254a69 , < 3728101f56ef54425a11027a3ddc2c3941d60b71 (git)
Affected: 29be47fcd6a06ea2e79eeeca6e69ad1e23254a69 , < fe8abdd175d7b547ae1a612757e7902bcd62e9cf (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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