CVE-2025-38585

staging: media: atomisp: Fix stack buffer overflow in gmin_get_var_int()

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

staging: media: atomisp: Fix stack buffer overflow in gmin_get_var_int()

When gmin_get_config_var() calls efi.get_variable() and the EFI variable

is larger than the expected buffer size, two behaviors combine to create

a stack buffer overflow:

1. gmin_get_config_var() does not return the proper error code when

efi.get_variable() fails. It returns the stale 'ret' value from

earlier operations instead of indicating the EFI failure.

2. When efi.get_variable() returns EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL, it updates

*out_len to the required buffer size but writes no data to the output

buffer. However, due to bug #1, gmin_get_var_int() believes the call

succeeded.

The caller gmin_get_var_int() then performs:

- Allocates val[CFG_VAR_NAME_MAX + 1] (65 bytes) on stack

- Calls gmin_get_config_var(dev, is_gmin, var, val, &len) with len=64

- If EFI variable is >64 bytes, efi.get_variable() sets len=required_size

- Due to bug #1, thinks call succeeded with len=required_size

- Executes val[len] = 0, writing past end of 65-byte stack buffer

This creates a stack buffer overflow when EFI variables are larger than

64 bytes. Since EFI variables can be controlled by firmware or system

configuration, this could potentially be exploited for code execution.

Fix the bug by returning proper error codes from gmin_get_config_var()

based on EFI status instead of stale 'ret' value.

The gmin_get_var_int() function is called during device initialization

for camera sensor configuration on Intel Bay Trail and Cherry Trail

platforms using the atomisp camera stack.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00219 · 11.8th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:03Z
    staging: media: atomisp: Fix stack buffer overflow in gmin_get_var_int()
    cvelistv5