Description

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

mtd: spi-nor: sst: Fix SST write failure

'commit 18bcb4aa54ea ("mtd: spi-nor: sst: Factor out common write operation
to `sst_nor_write_data()`")' introduced a bug where only one byte of data
is written, regardless of the number of bytes passed to
sst_nor_write_data(), causing a kernel crash during the write operation.
Ensure the correct number of bytes are written as passed to
sst_nor_write_data().

Call trace:
[ 57.400180] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 57.404842] While writing 2 byte written 1 bytes
[ 57.409493] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 737 at drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sst.c:187 sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74
[ 57.418464] Modules linked in:
[ 57.421517] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 737 Comm: mtd_debug Not tainted 6.12.0-g5ad04afd91f9 #30
[ 57.429517] Hardware name: Xilinx Versal A2197 Processor board revA - x-prc-02 revA (DT)
[ 57.437600] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 57.444557] pc : sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74
[ 57.448911] lr : sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74
[ 57.453264] sp : ffff80008232bb40
[ 57.456570] x29: ffff80008232bb40 x28: 0000000000010000 x27: 0000000000000001
[ 57.463708] x26: 000000000000ffff x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
[ 57.470843] x23: 0000000000010000 x22: ffff80008232bbf0 x21: ffff000816230000
[ 57.477978] x20: ffff0008056c0080 x19: 0000000000000002 x18: 0000000000000006
[ 57.485112] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 000000000...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21845

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.72% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-10 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21845
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb1accc7e0f688886f0c634f2e878b8ac4ee6a58
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9553391f32f8c43e12fc7c04e1035160b5ea20bf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/539bd20352832b9244238a055eb169ccf1c41ff6

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