CVE-2025-68281 (GCVE-0-2025-68281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 14:48 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:50
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Title
ASoC: SDCA: bug fix while parsing mipi-sdca-control-cn-list
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SDCA: bug fix while parsing mipi-sdca-control-cn-list "struct sdca_control" declares "values" field as integer array. But the memory allocated to it is of char array. This causes crash for sdca_parse_function API. This patch addresses the issue by allocating correct data size.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 50a479527ef01f9b36dde1803a7e81741a222509 , < fcd5786b506c51cbabc2560c68e040d8dba22a0d (git)
Affected: 50a479527ef01f9b36dde1803a7e81741a222509 , < eb2d6774cc0d9d6ab8f924825695a85c14b2e0c2 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.12 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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