CVE-2025-37801 (GCVE-0-2025-37801)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-08 06:26 – Updated: 2026-01-02 15:29
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Title
spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer() Add check for the return value of spi_imx_setupxfer(). spi_imx->rx and spi_imx->tx function pointer can be NULL when spi_imx_setupxfer() return error, and make NULL pointer dereference. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 Call trace: 0x0 spi_imx_pio_transfer+0x50/0xd8 spi_imx_transfer_one+0x18c/0x858 spi_transfer_one_message+0x43c/0x790 __spi_pump_transfer_message+0x238/0x5d4 __spi_sync+0x2b0/0x454 spi_write_then_read+0x11c/0x200
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Linux Linux Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 2fea0d6d7b5d27fbf55512d51851ba0a346ede52 (git)
Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 2b4479eb462ecb39001b38dfb331fc6028dedac8 (git)
Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 185d376875ea6fb4256b9dc97ee0b4d2b0fdd399 (git)
Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 055ef73bb1afc3f783a9a13b496770a781964a07 (git)
Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 951a04ab3a2db4029debfa48d380ef834b93207e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.136 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.89 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.26 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.5 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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