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FKIE_CVE-2025-21738

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-02-27 03:15 - Updated: 2026-07-30 06:21
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer reveliofuzzing reported that a SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl with out_len set to 0xd42, SCSI command set to ATA_16 PASS-THROUGH, ATA command set to ATA_NOP, and protocol set to ATA_PROT_PIO, can cause ata_pio_sector() to write outside the allocated buffer, overwriting random memory. While a ATA device is supposed to abort a ATA_NOP command, there does seem to be a bug either in libata-sff or QEMU, where either this status is not set, or the status is cleared before read by ata_sff_hsm_move(). Anyway, that is most likely a separate bug. Looking at __atapi_pio_bytes(), it already has a safety check to ensure that __atapi_pio_bytes() cannot write outside the allocated buffer. Add a similar check to ata_pio_sector(), such that also ata_pio_sector() cannot write outside the allocated buffer.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a17a9944b8d89ef03946121241870ac53ddaf45Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd5aade301a10f4b329fa7454fdcc2518741902Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e74e53b34b6dec5a50e1404e2680852ec6768d2Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8f8cf87059ed1905c2a5c72f8b39a4f57b11b4cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5e6e3000309359eae2a17117aa6e3c44897bf6cPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html
Impacted products
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer\n\nreveliofuzzing reported that a SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl with out_len\nset to 0xd42, SCSI command set to ATA_16 PASS-THROUGH, ATA command set to\nATA_NOP, and protocol set to ATA_PROT_PIO, can cause ata_pio_sector() to\nwrite outside the allocated buffer, overwriting random memory.\n\nWhile a ATA device is supposed to abort a ATA_NOP command, there does seem\nto be a bug either in libata-sff or QEMU, where either this status is not\nset, or the status is cleared before read by ata_sff_hsm_move().\nAnyway, that is most likely a separate bug.\n\nLooking at __atapi_pio_bytes(), it already has a safety check to ensure\nthat __atapi_pio_bytes() cannot write outside the allocated buffer.\n\nAdd a similar check to ata_pio_sector(), such that also ata_pio_sector()\ncannot write outside the allocated buffer."
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      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: ata: libata-sff: Aseg\u00farese de que no podamos escribir fuera del b\u00fafer asignado reveliofuzzing inform\u00f3 que un ioctl SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND con out_len establecido en 0xd42, comando SCSI establecido en ATA_16 PASS-THROUGH, comando ATA establecido en ATA_NOP y protocolo establecido en ATA_PROT_PIO, puede hacer que ata_pio_sector() escriba fuera del b\u00fafer asignado, sobrescribiendo memoria aleatoria. Si bien se supone que un dispositivo ATA debe abortar un comando ATA_NOP, parece haber un error en libata-sff o QEMU, donde este estado no est\u00e1 establecido o el estado se borra antes de la lectura por ata_sff_hsm_move(). De todos modos, es muy probable que se trate de un error separado. Si analizamos __atapi_pio_bytes(), veremos que ya tiene una comprobaci\u00f3n de seguridad para garantizar que __atapi_pio_bytes() no pueda escribir fuera del b\u00fafer asignado. Agreguemos una comprobaci\u00f3n similar a ata_pio_sector(), de modo que ata_pio_sector() tampoco pueda escribir fuera del b\u00fafer asignado."
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