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CVE-2025-68238 (GCVE-0-2025-68238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 14:08 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:02
VLAI
Title
mtd: rawnand: cadence: fix DMA device NULL pointer dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: rawnand: cadence: fix DMA device NULL pointer dereference The DMA device pointer `dma_dev` was being dereferenced before ensuring that `cdns_ctrl->dmac` is properly initialized. Move the assignment of `dma_dev` after successfully acquiring the DMA channel to ensure the pointer is valid before use.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0cae7c285f4771a9927ef592899234d307aea5d4 , < 2178b0255eae108bb10e5e99658b28641bc06f43 (git)
Affected: 099a316518508be7c57de4134ef919b2dea948ce , < 9c58c64ec41290c12490ca7e1df45013fbbb41fd (git)
Affected: e630d32162a8aab92d4aaebae0a8d93039257593 , < e282a4fdf3c6ee842a720010a8b5f7d77bedd126 (git)
Affected: ad9393467fbd788ac2b8a01e492e45ab1b68a1b1 , < b146e0b085d9d6bfe838e0a15481cba7d093c67f (git)
Affected: 0ce5416863965ddd86e066484a306867cf1e01a8 , < 0c635241a62f2f5da1b48bfffae226d1f86a76ef (git)
Affected: d76d22b5096c5b05208fd982b153b3f182350b19 , < 0c2a43cb43786011b48eeab6093db14888258c6b (git)
Affected: d76d22b5096c5b05208fd982b153b3f182350b19 , < 5c56bf214af85ca042bf97f8584aab2151035840 (git)
Affected: a33c7492dcdf804b705b6c21018a481414d48038 (git)
Affected: 5.10.235 , < 5.10.247 (semver)
Affected: 5.15.179 , < 5.15.197 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.130 , < 6.1.159 (semver)
Affected: 6.6.80 , < 6.6.118 (semver)
Affected: 6.12.17 , < 6.12.60 (semver)
Affected: 6.13.5 , < 6.14 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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