7.1

CVE-2025-22104

ibmvnic: Use kernel helpers for hex dumps

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

ibmvnic: Use kernel helpers for hex dumps

Previously, when the driver was printing hex dumps, the buffer was cast
to an 8 byte long and printed using string formatters. If the buffer
size was not a multiple of 8 then a read buffer overflow was possible.

Therefore, create a new ibmvnic function that loops over a buffer and
calls hex_dump_to_buffer instead.

This patch address KASAN reports like the one below:
  ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Login Buffer:
  ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 01000000af000000
  <...>
  ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 2e6d62692e736261
  ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 65050003006d6f63
  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ibmvnic_login+0xacc/0xffc [ibmvnic]
  Read of size 8 at addr c0000001331a9aa8 by task ip/17681
  <...>
  Allocated by task 17681:
  <...>
  ibmvnic_login+0x2f0/0xffc [ibmvnic]
  ibmvnic_open+0x148/0x308 [ibmvnic]
  __dev_open+0x1ac/0x304
  <...>
  The buggy address is located 168 bytes inside of
                allocated 175-byte region [c0000001331a9a00, c0000001331a9aaf)
  <...>
  =================================================================
  ibmvnic 30000003 env3: 000000000033766e
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.5 < 6.14.2
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.1 1.8 5.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.