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CVE-2025-21656

hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.72, 6.12.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur scsi_execute_cmd() function can return both negative (linux codes) and positive (scsi_cmnd result field) error codes. Currently the driver just passes error codes of scsi_execute_cmd() to hwmon core, which is incorrect because hwmon only checks for negative error codes. This leads to hwmon reporting uninitialized data to userspace in case of SCSI errors (for example if the disk drive was disconnected). This patch checks scsi_execute_cmd() output and returns -EIO if it's error code is positive. [groeck: Avoid inline variable declaration for portability]

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    5.6

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.6.0 · fixed in 6.6.72; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.10

References 6

git.kernel.org