CVE-2025-38531

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: common: st_sensors: Fix use of uninitialize device structs Throughout the various probe functions &indio_dev->dev is used before it is initialized. This caused a kernel panic in st_sensors_power_enable() when the call to devm_regulator_bulk_get_enable() fails and then calls dev_err_probe() with the uninitialized device. This seems to only cause a panic with dev_err_probe(), dev_err(), dev_warn() and dev_info() don't seem to cause a panic, but are fixed as well. The issue is reported and traced here: [1]

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f92e93e257b33e73622640a9205f8642ec16ddd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/610615c9668037e3eca11132063b93b2d945af13

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3297a9016a45144883ec990bd4bd5b1d79cafb46

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-16

Updated: 2025-08-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017