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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21738

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 10:15:14 PM

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Added 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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a17a9944b8d89ef03946121241870ac53ddaf45
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd5aade301a10f4b329fa7454fdcc2518741902
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e74e53b34b6dec5a50e1404e2680852ec6768d2
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8f8cf87059ed1905c2a5c72f8b39a4f57b11b4c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5e6e3000309359eae2a17117aa6e3c44897bf6c