CVE-2025-21738

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel Buffer Overflow via ATA_NOP Command in ata_pio_sector()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer reveliofuzzing reported that a SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl with out_len set to 0xd42, SCSI command set to ATA_16 PASS-THROUGH, ATA command set to ATA_NOP, and protocol set to ATA_PROT_PIO, can cause ata_pio_sector() to write outside the allocated buffer, overwriting random memory. While a ATA device is supposed to abort a ATA_NOP command, there does seem to be a bug either in libata-sff or QEMU, where either this status is not set, or the status is cleared before read by ata_sff_hsm_move(). Anyway, that is most likely a separate bug. Looking at __atapi_pio_bytes(), it already has a safety check to ensure that __atapi_pio_bytes() cannot write outside the allocated buffer. Add a similar check to ata_pio_sector(), such that also ata_pio_sector() cannot write outside the allocated buffer.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 9.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (17)
linux/Kernel 2.6.22 - 6.1.129linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.78linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.14linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.22
Linux/Linux 2.6.22
Linux/Linux 5a5dbd18a7496ed403f6f54bb20c955c65482fa5 - 0a17a9944b8d89ef03946121241870ac53ddaf45
Linux/Linux 5a5dbd18a7496ed403f6f54bb20c955c65482fa5 - 0dd5aade301a10f4b329fa7454fdcc2518741902
Linux/Linux 5a5dbd18a7496ed403f6f54bb20c955c65482fa5 - 6e74e53b34b6dec5a50e1404e2680852ec6768d2
Linux/Linux 5a5dbd18a7496ed403f6f54bb20c955c65482fa5 - a8f8cf87059ed1905c2a5c72f8b39a4f57b11b4c
... and 7 more
Published Feb 27, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026