CVE-2025-68238
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/12/2025
Last modified:
16/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
mtd: rawnand: cadence: fix DMA device NULL pointer dereference<br />
<br />
The DMA device pointer `dma_dev` was being dereferenced before ensuring<br />
that `cdns_ctrl->dmac` is properly initialized.<br />
<br />
Move the assignment of `dma_dev` after successfully acquiring the DMA<br />
channel to ensure the pointer is valid before use.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c2a43cb43786011b48eeab6093db14888258c6b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c635241a62f2f5da1b48bfffae226d1f86a76ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2178b0255eae108bb10e5e99658b28641bc06f43
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c56bf214af85ca042bf97f8584aab2151035840
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c58c64ec41290c12490ca7e1df45013fbbb41fd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b146e0b085d9d6bfe838e0a15481cba7d093c67f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e282a4fdf3c6ee842a720010a8b5f7d77bedd126