CVE-2025-38284CWE-476

CVE-2025-38284

Medium · published July 10, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: rtw89: pci: configure manual DAC mode via PCI config API only

To support 36-bit DMA, configure chip proprietary bit via PCI config API

or chip DBI interface. However, the PCI device mmap isn't set yet and

the DBI is also inaccessible via mmap, so only if the bit can be accessible

via PCI config API, chip can support 36-bit DMA. Otherwise, fallback to

32-bit DMA.

With NULL mmap address, kernel throws trace:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001090

#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode

#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page

PGD 0 P4D 0

Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 71 Comm: irq/26-pciehp Tainted: G OE 6.14.2-061402-generic #202504101348

Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE

RIP: 0010:rtw89_pci_ops_write16+0x12/0x30 [rtw89_pci]

RSP: 0018:ffffb0ffc0acf9d8 EFLAGS: 00010206

RAX: ffffffffc158f9c0 RBX: ffff94865e702020 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: 0000000000000718 RSI: 0000000000001090 RDI: ffff94865e702020

RBP: ffffb0ffc0acf9d8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000015

R13: 0000000000000719 R14: ffffb0ffc0acfa1f R15: ffffffffc1813060

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9486f3480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000000001090 CR3: 0000000090440001 CR4: 00000000000626f0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

rtw89_pci_read_config_byte+0x6d/0x120 [rtw89_pci]

rtw89_pci_cfg_dac+0x5b/0xb0 [rtw89_pci]

rtw89_pci_probe+0xa96/0xbd0 [rtw89_pci]

? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10

? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10

local_pci_probe+0x47/0xa0

pci_call_probe+0x5d/0x190

pci_device_probe+0xa7/0x160

really_probe+0xf9/0x370

? pm_runtime_barrier+0x55/0xa0

__driver_probe_device+0x8c/0x140

driver_probe_device+0x24/0xd0

__device_attach_driver+0xcd/0x170

bus_for_each_drv+0x99/0x100

__device_attach+0xb4/0x1d0

device_attach+0x10/0x20

pci_bus_add_device+0x59/0x90

pci_bus_add_devices+0x31/0x80

pciehp_configure_device+0xaa/0x170

pciehp_enable_slot+0xd6/0x240

pciehp_handle_presence_or_link_change+0xf1/0x180

pciehp_ist+0x162/0x1c0

irq_thread_fn+0x24/0x70

irq_thread+0xef/0x1c0

? __pfx_irq_thread_fn+0x10/0x10

? __pfx_irq_thread_dtor+0x10/0x10

? __pfx_irq_thread+0x10/0x10

kthread+0xfc/0x230

? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10

ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70

? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

</TASK>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00186 · 7.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-07-10T12:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.11, < 6.15.36.15.3
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUL 07:42Z
    wifi: rtw89: pci: configure manual DAC mode via PCI config API only
    cvelistv5