Description

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

net: hns3: fix kernel crash when 1588 is sent on HIP08 devices

Currently, HIP08 devices does not register the ptp devices, so the
hdev->ptp is NULL. But the tx process would still try to set hardware time
stamp info with SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP flag and cause a kernel crash.

[ 128.087798] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018
...
[ 128.280251] pc : hclge_ptp_set_tx_info+0x2c/0x140 [hclge]
[ 128.286600] lr : hclge_ptp_set_tx_info+0x20/0x140 [hclge]
[ 128.292938] sp : ffff800059b93140
[ 128.297200] x29: ffff800059b93140 x28: 0000000000003280
[ 128.303455] x27: ffff800020d48280 x26: ffff0cb9dc814080
[ 128.309715] x25: ffff0cb9cde93fa0 x24: 0000000000000001
[ 128.315969] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000194
[ 128.322219] x21: ffff0cd94f986000 x20: 0000000000000000
[ 128.328462] x19: ffff0cb9d2a166c0 x18: 0000000000000000
[ 128.334698] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffcf1fc523ed24
[ 128.340934] x15: 0000ffffd530a518 x14: 0000000000000000
[ 128.347162] x13: ffff0cd6bdb31310 x12: 0000000000000368
[ 128.353388] x11: ffff0cb9cfbc7070 x10: ffff2cf55dd11e02
[ 128.359606] x9 : ffffcf1f85a212b4 x8 : ffff0cd7cf27dab0
[ 128.365831] x7 : 0000000000000a20 x6 : ffff0cd7cf27d000
[ 128.372040] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 000000000000ffff
[ 128.378243] x3 : 0000000000000400 x2 : ffffcf1f85a21294
[ 128.384437] x1 : ffff0cb9db520080 x0 : ffff0cb9db500080
[ 128.390...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21649

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.67% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-17 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f19ab3ef96d9626e5f1bdc56d3574c355e83d623
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9741e72b2286de8b38de9db685588ac421a95c87

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