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CVE-2025-38531 (GCVE-0-2025-38531)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 11:12 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:29
VLAI
Title
iio: common: st_sensors: Fix use of uninitialize device structs
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: common: st_sensors: Fix use of uninitialize device structs Throughout the various probe functions &indio_dev->dev is used before it is initialized. This caused a kernel panic in st_sensors_power_enable() when the call to devm_regulator_bulk_get_enable() fails and then calls dev_err_probe() with the uninitialized device. This seems to only cause a panic with dev_err_probe(), dev_err(), dev_warn() and dev_info() don't seem to cause a panic, but are fixed as well. The issue is reported and traced here: [1]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95 , < f9d4b618f1b9e6d760cc7c15052b92f7faf47201 (git)
Affected: 4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95 , < 610615c9668037e3eca11132063b93b2d945af13 (git)
Affected: 4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95 , < 3297a9016a45144883ec990bd4bd5b1d79cafb46 (git)
Affected: 4dff754876959b3f3b354800089bc8aaa3ec1d95 , < 9f92e93e257b33e73622640a9205f8642ec16ddd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.136 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.40 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.8 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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