CVE-2025-21656

hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur

published January 21, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur

scsi_execute_cmd() function can return both negative (linux codes) and

positive (scsi_cmnd result field) error codes.

Currently the driver just passes error codes of scsi_execute_cmd() to

hwmon core, which is incorrect because hwmon only checks for negative

error codes. This leads to hwmon reporting uninitialized data to

userspace in case of SCSI errors (for example if the disk drive was

disconnected).

This patch checks scsi_execute_cmd() output and returns -EIO if it's

error code is positive.

[groeck: Avoid inline variable declaration for portability]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00203 · 9.7th percentile
Published
2025-01-21T12:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 JAN 12:18Z
    hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur
    cvelistv5