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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21845" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-12T09:42:01.252Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:05:02.903Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21845" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21845.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21845" title: "mtd: spi-nor: sst: Fix SST write failure" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: spi-nor: sst: Fix SST write failure\n\n'commit 18bcb4aa54ea (\"mtd: spi-nor: sst: Factor out common write operation\nto `sst_nor_write_data()`\")' introduced a bug where only one byte of data\nis written, regardless of the number of bytes passed to\nsst_nor_write_data(), causing a kernel crash during the write operation.\nEnsure the correct number of bytes are written as passed to\nsst_nor_write_data().\n\nCall trace:\n[ 57.400180] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 57.404842] While writing 2 byte written 1 bytes\n[ 57.409493] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 737 at drivers/mtd/spi-nor/sst.c:187 sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74\n[ 57.418464] Modules linked in:\n[ 57.421517] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 737 Comm: mtd_debug Not tainted 6.12.0-g5ad04afd91f9 #30\n[ 57.429517] Hardware name: Xilinx Versal A2197 Processor board revA - x-prc-02 revA (DT)\n[ 57.437600] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n[ 57.444557] pc : sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74\n[ 57.448911] lr : sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74\n[ 57.453264] sp : ffff80008232bb40\n[ 57.456570] x29: ffff80008232bb40 x28: 0000000000010000 x27: 0000000000000001\n[ 57.463708] x26: 000000000000ffff x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000\n[ 57.470843] x23: 0000000000010000 x22: ffff80008232bbf0 x21: ffff000816230000\n[ 57.477978] x20: ffff0008056c0080 x19: 0000000000000002 x18: 0000000000000006\n[ 57.485112] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff80008232b580\n[ 57.492246] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffff8000816d1530 x12: 00000000000004a4\n[ 57.499380] x11: 000000000000018c x10: ffff8000816fd530 x9 : ffff8000816d1530\n[ 57.506515] x8 : 00000000fffff7ff x7 : ffff8000816fd530 x6 : 0000000000000001\n[ 57.513649] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000\n[ 57.520782] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0008049b0000\n[ 57.527916] Call trace:\n[ 57.530354] sst_nor_write_data+0x6c/0x74\n[ 57.534361] sst_nor_write+0xb4/0x18c\n[ 57.538019] mtd_write_oob_std+0x7c/0x88\n[ 57.541941] mtd_write_oob+0x70/0xbc\n[ 57.545511] mtd_write+0x68/0xa8\n[ 57.548733] mtdchar_write+0x10c/0x290\n[ 57.552477] vfs_write+0xb4/0x3a8\n[ 57.555791] ksys_write+0x74/0x10c\n[ 57.559189] __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28\n[ 57.563109] invoke_syscall+0x54/0x11c\n[ 57.566856] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0\n[ 57.571557] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28\n[ 57.574868] el0_svc+0x30/0xcc\n[ 57.577921] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c\n[ 57.582276] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194\n[ 57.585933] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\n[pratyush@kernel.org: add Cc stable tag]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b925a5787b6e1d05731eb2dcc31dcaafc40ec2b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f791837015a0d20f584d0ed368393f119a00018f"},{"version":"b7cd63d13faef7ca5cf31ffa45ebf08829e4c9a7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7c14993dc2f1eca661975c0ff90a6e2098ecd41"},{"version":"18bcb4aa54eab75dce41e5c176a1c2bff94f0f79","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb1accc7e0f688886f0c634f2e878b8ac4ee6a58"},{"version":"18bcb4aa54eab75dce41e5c176a1c2bff94f0f79","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9553391f32f8c43e12fc7c04e1035160b5ea20bf"},{"version":"18bcb4aa54eab75dce41e5c176a1c2bff94f0f79","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"539bd20352832b9244238a055eb169ccf1c41ff6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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