CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-23151

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the MHI host driver has a race condition between mhi_unprepare_from_transfer() and mhi_queue_buf(). If mhi_gen_tre() runs after the channel is torn down by mhi_unprepare_from_transfer(), a kernel panic occurs due to an invalid pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this race to cause a kernel panic, leading to denial of service (DoS) on devices using MHI (e.g., 5G modems).

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2025-23151.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bus: mhi: host: Fix race between unprepare and queue_buf A client driver may use mhi_unprepare_from_transfer() to quiesce incoming data during the client driver's tear down. The client driver might also be processing data at the same time, resulting in a call to mhi_queue_buf() which will invoke mhi_gen_tre(). If mhi_gen_tre() runs after mhi_unprepare_from_transfer() has torn down the channel, a panic will occur due to an invalid dereference leading to a page fault. This occurs because mhi_gen_tre() does not verify the channel state after locking it. Fix this by having mhi_gen_tre() confirm the channel state is valid, or return error to avoid accessing deinitialized data. [mani: added stable tag]

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