Linux Kernel up to 6.15-rc4 qcom-mpm denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.137/6.6.89/6.12.27/6.14.5/6.15-rc4. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component qcom-mpm. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-37901. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.137/6.6.89/6.12.27/6.14.5/6.15-rc4 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component qcom-mpm. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/qcom-mpm: Prevent crash when trying to handle non-wake GPIOs On Qualcomm chipsets not all GPIOs are wakeup capable. Those GPIOs do not have a corresponding MPM pin and should not be handled inside the MPM driver. The IRQ domain hierarchy is always applied, so it's required to explicitly disconnect the hierarchy for those. The pinctrl-msm driver marks these with GPIO_NO_WAKE_IRQ. qcom-pdc has a check for this, but irq-qcom-mpm is currently missing the check. This is causing crashes when setting up interrupts for non-wake GPIOs: root@rb1:~# gpiomon -c gpiochip1 10 irq: IRQ159: trimming hierarchy from :soc@0:interrupt-controller@f200000-1 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff8000a1dc3820 Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Robotics RB1 (DT) pc : mpm_set_type+0x80/0xcc lr : mpm_set_type+0x5c/0xcc Call trace: mpm_set_type+0x80/0xcc (P) qcom_mpm_set_type+0x64/0x158 irq_chip_set_type_parent+0x20/0x38 msm_gpio_irq_set_type+0x50/0x530 __irq_set_trigger+0x60/0x184 __setup_irq+0x304/0x6bc request_threaded_irq+0xc8/0x19c edge_detector_setup+0x260/0x364 linereq_create+0x420/0x5a8 gpio_ioctl+0x2d4/0x6c0 Fix this by copying the check for GPIO_NO_WAKE_IRQ from qcom-pdc.c, so that MPM is removed entirely from the hierarchy for non-wake GPIOs.

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-37901 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 237223 (Debian dsa-5925 : affs-modules-6.1.0-33-4kc-malta-di - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.1.138, 6.6.90, 6.12.28, 6.14.6 or 6.15-rc5 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 45aced97f01d5ab14c8a2a60f6748f18c501c3f5/dfbaecf7e38f5e9bfa5e47a1e525ffbb58bab8cf/f102342360950b56959e5fff4a874ea88ae13758/d5c10448f411a925dd59005785cb971f0626e032/38a05c0b87833f5b188ae43b428b1f792df2b384 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (237223) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1114). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• Dell Avamar
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• Dell NetWorker
• Dell Secure Connect Gateway

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.1.137
• 6.6.0
• 6.6.1
• 6.6.2
• 6.6.3
• 6.6.4
• 6.6.5
• 6.6.6
• 6.6.7
• 6.6.8
• 6.6.9
• 6.6.10
• 6.6.11
• 6.6.12
• 6.6.13
• 6.6.14
• 6.6.15
• 6.6.16
• 6.6.17
• 6.6.18
• 6.6.19
• 6.6.20
• 6.6.21
• 6.6.22
• 6.6.23
• 6.6.24
• 6.6.25
• 6.6.26
• 6.6.27
• 6.6.28
• 6.6.29
• 6.6.30
• 6.6.31
• 6.6.32
• 6.6.33
• 6.6.34
• 6.6.35
• 6.6.36
• 6.6.37
• 6.6.38
• 6.6.39
• 6.6.40
• 6.6.41
• 6.6.42
• 6.6.43
• 6.6.44
• 6.6.45
• 6.6.46
• 6.6.47
• 6.6.48
• 6.6.49
• 6.6.50
• 6.6.51
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• 6.6.54
• 6.6.55
• 6.6.56
• 6.6.57
• 6.6.58
• 6.6.59
• 6.6.60
• 6.6.61
• 6.6.62
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• 6.6.64
• 6.6.65
• 6.6.66
• 6.6.67
• 6.6.68
• 6.6.69
• 6.6.70
• 6.6.71
• 6.6.72
• 6.6.73
• 6.6.74
• 6.6.75
• 6.6.76
• 6.6.77
• 6.6.78
• 6.6.79
• 6.6.80
• 6.6.81
• 6.6.82
• 6.6.83
• 6.6.84
• 6.6.85
• 6.6.86
• 6.6.87
• 6.6.88
• 6.6.89
• 6.12.0
• 6.12.1
• 6.12.2
• 6.12.3
• 6.12.4
• 6.12.5
• 6.12.6
• 6.12.7
• 6.12.8
• 6.12.9
• 6.12.10
• 6.12.11
• 6.12.12
• 6.12.13
• 6.12.14
• 6.12.15
• 6.12.16
• 6.12.17
• 6.12.18
• 6.12.19
• 6.12.20
• 6.12.21
• 6.12.22
• 6.12.23
• 6.12.24
• 6.12.25
• 6.12.26
• 6.12.27
• 6.14.0
• 6.14.1
• 6.14.2
• 6.14.3
• 6.14.4
• 6.14.5
• 6.15-rc1
• 6.15-rc2
• 6.15-rc3
• 6.15-rc4

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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