CVE-2025-22104

ibmvnic: Use kernel helpers for hex dumps

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: April 16, 2025 at 02:12 PM UTC
Updated: September 2, 2026 at 02:02 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ibmvnic: Use kernel helpers for hex dumps Previously, when the driver was printing hex dumps, the buffer was cast to an 8 byte long and printed using string formatters. If the buffer size was not a multiple of 8 then a read buffer overflow was possible. Therefore, create a new ibmvnic function that loops over a buffer and calls hex_dump_to_buffer instead. This patch address KASAN reports like the one below: ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Login Buffer: ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 01000000af000000 <...> ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 2e6d62692e736261 ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 65050003006d6f63 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ibmvnic_login+0xacc/0xffc [ibmvnic] Read of size 8 at addr c0000001331a9aa8 by task ip/17681 <...> Allocated by task 17681: <...> ibmvnic_login+0x2f0/0xffc [ibmvnic] ibmvnic_open+0x148/0x308 [ibmvnic] __dev_open+0x1ac/0x304 <...> The buggy address is located 168 bytes inside of allocated 175-byte region [c0000001331a9a00, c0000001331a9aaf) <...> ================================================================= ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 000000000033766e

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.5 ≤ v < 6.1.1874.5 ≤ v < 6.12.1084.5 ≤ v < 6.14.24.5 ≤ v < 6.154.5 ≤ v < 6.6.15632c5e82847a2214c3196a90f0aeba0ce252de584.5
Vendor states this is fixed in 005fee039dd845122d313ac8f2122b0d09dc5d7b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 19efa170e01207c8ada726f3f6c65b31fcba2a73 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9bc078818ec76344c2e06b81d7aee2df3adecfbf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ae6b1d6c1acee3a2000394d83ec9f1028321e207 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d93a6caab5d7d9b5ce034d75b1e1e993338e3852 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.187 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.108 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.156 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125

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