CVE-2025-38142
kernel: hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) check sensor index in read_string()
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UnknownRed Hat Product Security
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Published · July 3, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) check sensor index in read_string()
Prevent a potential invalid memory access when the requested sensor is not found.
find_ec_sensor_index() may return a negative value (e.g. -ENOENT), but its result was used without checking, which could lead to undefined behavior when passed to get_sensor_info().
Add a proper check to return -EINVAL if sensor_index is negative.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
[groeck: Return error code returned from find_ec_sensor_index]
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CWE not specified