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CVE-2025-38142 (GCVE-0-2025-38142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:22
VLAI
Title
hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) check sensor index in read_string()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) check sensor index in read_string() Prevent a potential invalid memory access when the requested sensor is not found. find_ec_sensor_index() may return a negative value (e.g. -ENOENT), but its result was used without checking, which could lead to undefined behavior when passed to get_sensor_info(). Add a proper check to return -EINVAL if sensor_index is negative. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [groeck: Return error code returned from find_ec_sensor_index]
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: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 6bf529ce84dccc0074dbc704e70aee4aa545057e (git)
Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 4e9e45746b861ebd54c03ef301da2cb8fc990536 (git)
Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 19bd9cde38dd4ca1771aed7afba623e7f4247c8e (git)
Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 7eeb3df6f07a886bdfd52757ede127a59a8784dc (git)
Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 25be318324563c63cbd9cb53186203a08d2f83a1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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