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medium 5.5

CVE-2025-38581 json

crypto: ccp - Fix crash when rebind ccp device for ccp.ko

published 2025-08-19 14 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also EUVD-2025-26096

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

crypto: ccp - Fix crash when rebind ccp device for ccp.ko

When CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DEBUGFS is enabled, rebinding the ccp device causes the following crash:

$ echo '0000:0a:00.2' > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ccp/unbind $ echo '0000:0a:00.2' > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ccp/bind

[ 204.976930] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000098 [ 204.978026] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ 204.979126] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [ 204.980226] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 204.981317] Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... [ 204.997852] Call Trace: [ 204.999074] <TASK> [ 205.000297] start_creating+0x9f/0x1c0 [ 205.001533] debugfs_create_dir+0x1f/0x170 [ 205.002769] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f [ 205.004000] ccp5_debugfs_setup+0x87/0x170 [ccp] [ 205.005241] ccp5_init+0x8b2/0x960 [ccp] [ 205.006469] ccp_dev_init+0xd4/0x150 [ccp] [ 205.007709] sp_init+0x5f/0x80 [ccp] [ 205.008942] sp_pci_probe+0x283/0x2e0 [ccp] [ 205.010165] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f [ 205.011376] local_pci_probe+0x4f/0xb0 [ 205.012584] pci_device_probe+0xdb/0x230 [ 205.013810] really_probe+0xed/0x380 [ 205.015024] __driver_probe_device+0x7e/0x160 [ 205.016240] device_driver_attach+0x2f/0x60 [ 205.017457] bind_store+0x7c/0xb0 [ 205.018663] drv_attr_store+0x28/0x40 [ 205.019868] sysfs_kf_write+0x5f/0x70 [ 205.021065] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x145/0x1d0 [ 205.022267] vfs_write+0x308/0x440 [ 205.023453] ksys_write+0x6d/0xe0 [ 205.024616] __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30 [ 205.025778] x64_sys_call+0x16ba/0x2150 [ 205.026942] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x1e0 [ 205.028108] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 205.029276] RIP: 0033:0x7fbc36f10104 [ 205.030420] Code: 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 48 8d 05 e1 08 2e 00 8b 00 85 c0 75 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 f3 c3 66 90 41 54 55 49 89 d4 53 48 89 f5

This patch sets ccp_debugfs_dir to NULL after destroying it in ccp5_debugfs_destroy, allowing the directory dentry to be recreated when rebinding the ccp device.

Tested on AMD Ryzen 7 1700X.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.4.297, 5.10.241, 5.15.190, 6.1.148, 6.6.102, 6.12.42, 6.15.10, 6.16.1, 6.17
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.148-1
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.43-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.16.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38581

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-163.173
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1097.104
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1097.106
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1047.50
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1093.99
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1043.48

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38581

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-source SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4
  • kernel-syms SLES 16.0, Linux Micro Extras 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-obs-qa SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1SUSE-SU-2026:20560-1SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1SUSE-SU-2025:03633-1

  • kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1

  • kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.104.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-66500

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-38581 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: crypto: ccp - Fix crash when rebind ccp device for ccp.ko

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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