CVE-2025-38266

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38266
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38266.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38266
Downstream
Published
2025-07-10T07:37:34Z
Modified
2026-09-16T03:30:56Z
Summary
pinctrl: mediatek: eint: Fix invalid pointer dereference for v1 platforms
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: mediatek: eint: Fix invalid pointer dereference for v1 platforms

Commit 3ef9f710efcb ("pinctrl: mediatek: Add EINT support for multiple addresses") introduced an access to the 'soc' field of struct mtk_pinctrl in mtk_eint_do_init() and for that an include of pinctrl-mtk-common-v2.h.

However, pinctrl drivers relying on the v1 common driver include pinctrl-mtk-common.h instead, which provides another definition of struct mtk_pinctrl that does not contain an 'soc' field.

Since mtk_eint_do_init() can be called both by v1 and v2 drivers, it will now try to dereference an invalid pointer when called on v1 platforms. This has been observed on Genio 350 EVK (MT8365), which crashes very early in boot (the kernel trace can only be seen with earlycon).

In order to fix this, since 'struct mtk_pinctrl' was only needed to get a 'struct mtk_eint_pin', make 'struct mtk_eint_pin' a parameter of mtk_eint_do_init() so that callers need to supply it, removing mtk_eint_do_init()'s dependency on any particular 'struct mtk_pinctrl'.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38266.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
3cc64c13deb38080afc6b37060e825d4fe0a4737
Fixed
eae2b12df3aac874566f7025799ca4219572e44c
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
7586766229354983cf5572f81295e69bf5abccf5
Fixed
e578bbff985822573a27d4b7c9ec858e6014d033
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
00f864b4b5ce3c50f3217626c8de97fbda1b2ea6
Fixed
abe8ad6a1a00c5c7be28b038d0ede0bdcacd8610
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
3ef9f710efcb5cc1335b5b09c16c757f703d7e5f
Fixed
9ebe21ede792cef851847648962c363cac67d17f
Fixed
1c9977b263475373b31bbf86af94a5c9ae2be42c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38266.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.15.0
Fixed
6.15.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38266.json"