CVE - CVE-2025-38229

CVE-ID
CVE-2025-38229	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cxusb: no longer judge rbuf when the write fails syzbot reported a uninit-value in cxusb_i2c_xfer. [1] Only when the write operation of usb_bulk_msg() in dvb_usb_generic_rw() succeeds and rlen is greater than 0, the read operation of usb_bulk_msg() will be executed to read rlen bytes of data from the dvb device into the rbuf. In this case, although rlen is 1, the write operation failed which resulted in the dvb read operation not being executed, and ultimately variable i was not initialized. [1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cxusb_gpio_tuner drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c:124 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in cxusb_i2c_xfer+0x153a/0x1a60 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c:196 cxusb_gpio_tuner drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c:124 [inline] cxusb_i2c_xfer+0x153a/0x1a60 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c:196 __i2c_transfer+0xe25/0x3150 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:-1 i2c_transfer+0x317/0x4a0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:2315 i2c_transfer_buffer_flags+0x125/0x1e0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:2343 i2c_master_send include/linux/i2c.h:109 [inline] i2cdev_write+0x210/0x280 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:183 do_loop_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:848 [inline] vfs_writev+0x963/0x14e0 fs/read_write.c:1057 do_writev+0x247/0x5c0 fs/read_write.c:1101 __do_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1169 [inline] __se_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1166 [inline] __x64_sys_writev+0x98/0xe0 fs/read_write.c:1166 x64_sys_call+0x2229/0x3c80 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:21 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04354c529c8246a38ae28f713fd6bfdc028113bc URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04354c529c8246a38ae28f713fd6bfdc028113bc MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/390b864e3281802109dfe56e508396683e125653 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/390b864e3281802109dfe56e508396683e125653 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41807a5f67420464ac8ee7741504f6b5decb3b7c URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41807a5f67420464ac8ee7741504f6b5decb3b7c MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73fb3b92da84637e3817580fa205d48065924e15 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73fb3b92da84637e3817580fa205d48065924e15 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84eca597baa346f09b30accdaeca10ced3eeba2d URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84eca597baa346f09b30accdaeca10ced3eeba2d MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b35b50b7e98d8e9a0a27257c8424448afae10de URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b35b50b7e98d8e9a0a27257c8424448afae10de MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bff888c92f5c25effbb876d22a793c2388c1ccc URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bff888c92f5c25effbb876d22a793c2388c1ccc
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20250416	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20250416)
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