CVE-2025-39923
Estado: AnalizadaMedia (5.5)—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix DT error handling for num-channels/ees
When we don't have a clock specified in the device tree, we have no way to ensure the BAM is on. This is often the case for remotely-controlled or remotely-powered BAM instances. In this case, we need to read num-channels from the DT to have all the necessary information to complete probing.
However, at the moment invalid device trees without clock and without num-channels still continue probing, because the error handling is missing return statements.
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The driver will then later try to read the number of channels from the registers. This is unsafe, because it relies on boot firmware and lucky timing to succeed. Unfortunately, the lack of proper error handling here has been abused for several Qualcomm SoCs upstream, causing early boot crashes in several situations [1, 2].
Avoid these early crashes by erroring out when any of the required DT properties are missing. Note that this will break some of the existing DTs upstream (mainly BAM instances related to the crypto engine). However, clearly these DTs have never been tested properly, since the error in the kernel log was just ignored. It's safer to disable the crypto engine for these broken DTBs.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CY01EKQVWE36.B9X5TDXAREPF@fairphone.com/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230626145959.646747-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org/
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.15%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 4
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (2)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ff9df758af7022d749718fb6b8385cc5693acf3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d98ba204d8a6db0d986c7f1aefaa0dcd1c007a2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fc14731f0be4885e60702b9596d14d9a79cf053
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e257a6125c63350f00dc42b9674f20fd3cf4a9f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5068b5254812433e841a40886e695633148d362d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/555bd16351a35c79efb029a196975a5a27f7fbc4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ac1599d0e78036d9d08efc2f58c2d91f0a3ee4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebf6c7c908e5999531c3517289598f187776124f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
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