🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38255
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/group_cpus: fix NULL pointer dereference from group_cpus_evenly() While testing null_blk with configfs, echo 0 > poll_queues will trigger following panic: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 27 UID: 0 PID: 920 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.15.0-02023-gadbdb95c8696-dirty #1238 PREEMPT(undef) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__bitmap_or+0x48/0x70 Call Trace: __group_cpus_evenly+0x822/0x8c0 group_cpus_evenly+0x2d9/0x490 blk_mq_map_queues+0x1e/0x110 null_map_queues+0xc9/0x170 [null_blk] blk_mq_update_queue_map+0xdb/0x160 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x22b/0x560 nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk] nullb_device_poll_queues_store+0xa4/0x130 [null_blk] configfs_write_iter+0x109/0x1d0 vfs_write+0x26e/0x6f0 ksys_write+0x79/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x45c4/0x45f0 do_syscall_64+0xa5/0x240 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Root cause is that numgrps is set to 0, and ZERO_SIZE_PTR is returned from kcalloc(), and later ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be deferenced. Fix the problem by checking numgrps first in group_cpus_evenly(), and return NULL directly if numgrps is zero. [[email protected]: also fix the non-SMP version]

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-07-09
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 6.8.0-100.100
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 6.8.0-1046.49
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.14 6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1
linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1046.49+fips1
linux-azure 6.8.0-1046.52
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.11
linux-azure-6.14 6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.17
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fde-6.8
linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1046.52+fips1
linux-azure-nvidia
linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 6.14.0-1007.7
linux-bluefield
linux-fips 6.8.0-100.100+fips1
linux-gcp 6.8.0-1047.50
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.11
linux-gcp-6.14 6.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2
linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1047.50+fips1
linux-gke 6.8.0-1043.48
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1030.33
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.11
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 6.8.0-1044.44
linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1
linux-intel
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime
linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-100.100.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1
linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1046.49
linux-nvidia-6.11
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1
linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1046.49.1
linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1020.20
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.11
linux-oem-6.14 6.14.0-1014.14
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oem-6.8
linux-oracle 6.8.0-1043.44
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.14 6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1
linux-raspi 6.8.0-1047.51
linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2037.38
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime 6.8.1-1041.42
linux-realtime-6.14 6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1
linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1041.42~22.04.1
linux-riscv
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.14 6.14.0-34.34.1~24.04.1
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-100.100~22.04.1
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1023.24

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