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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38300" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-10T07:42:12.826Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:25:18.683Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-38300" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38300.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38300" title: "crypto: sun8i-ce-cipher - fix error handling in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: sun8i-ce-cipher - fix error handling in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare()\n\nFix two DMA cleanup issues on the error path in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare():\n\n1] If dma_map_sg() fails for areq-\u003edst, the device driver would try to free\n DMA memory it has not allocated in the first place. To fix this, on the\n \"theend_sgs\" error path, call dma unmap only if the corresponding dma\n map was successful.\n\n2] If the dma_map_single() call for the IV fails, the device driver would\n try to free an invalid DMA memory address on the \"theend_iv\" path:\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n DMA-API: sun8i-ce 1904000.crypto: device driver tries to free an invalid DMA memory address\n WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 69 at kernel/dma/debug.c:968 check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90\n Modules linked in: skcipher_example(O+)\n CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 69 Comm: 1904000.crypto- Tainted: G O 6.15.0-rc3+ #24 PREEMPT\n Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE\n Hardware name: OrangePi Zero2 (DT)\n pc : check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90\n lr : check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90\n ...\n Call trace:\n check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90 (P)\n debug_dma_unmap_page+0xac/0xc0\n dma_unmap_page_attrs+0x1f4/0x5fc\n sun8i_ce_cipher_do_one+0x1bd4/0x1f40\n crypto_pump_work+0x334/0x6e0\n kthread_worker_fn+0x21c/0x438\n kthread+0x374/0x664\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nTo fix this, check for !dma_mapping_error() before calling\ndma_unmap_single() on the \"theend_iv\" path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"06f751b613296cc34b86fc83fccaf30d646eb8bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0ac3f85b2e3ef529e852f252a70311f9029d5e6"},{"version":"06f751b613296cc34b86fc83fccaf30d646eb8bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c62b79c1c51303dbcb6edfa4de0ee176f4934c52"},{"version":"06f751b613296cc34b86fc83fccaf30d646eb8bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19d267d9fad00d94ad8477899e38ed7c11f33fb6"},{"version":"06f751b613296cc34b86fc83fccaf30d646eb8bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4051250e5db489f8ad65fc337e2677b9b568ac72"},{"version":"06f751b613296cc34b86fc83fccaf30d646eb8bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f31adc3e356f7350d4a4d68c98d3f60f2f6e26b3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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