# CVE-2025-38300: crypto: sun8i-ce-cipher - fix error handling in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare()

> A flaw in the Linux kernel's sun8i-ce crypto driver causes invalid DMA memory access on error paths, potentially leading to system crashes or warnings.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 10 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-64881, AZL-72832, BELL-CVE-2025-38300, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38300, GHSA-6cqx-88r9-52g7, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38300, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38300, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38300, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38300, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38300

## What is CVE-2025-38300?

CVE-2025-38300 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

crypto: sun8i-ce-cipher - fix error handling in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare()

Fix two DMA cleanup issues on the error path in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare():

1] If dma_map_sg() fails for areq->dst, the device driver would try to free
   DMA memory it has not allocated in the first place. To fix this, on the
   "theend_sgs" error path, call dma unmap only if the corresponding dma
   map was successful.

2] If the dma_map_single() call for the IV fails, the device driver would
   try to free an invalid DMA memory address on the "theend_iv" path:
   ------------[ cut here ]------------
   DMA-API: sun8i-ce 1904000.crypto: device driver tries to free an invalid DMA memory address
   WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 69 at kernel/dma/debug.c:968 check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90
   Modules linked in: skcipher_example(O+)
   CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 69 Comm: 1904000.crypto- Tainted: G           O        6.15.0-rc3+ #24 PREEMPT
   Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
   Hardware name: OrangePi Zero2 (DT)
   pc : check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90
   lr : check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90
   ...
   Call trace:
    check_unmap+0x123c/0x1b90 (P)
    debug_dma_unmap_page+0xac/0xc0
    dma_unmap_page_attrs+0x1f4/0x5fc
    sun8i_ce_cipher_do_one+0x1bd4/0x1f40
    crypto_pump_work+0x334/0x6e0
    kthread_worker_fn+0x21c/0x438
    kthread+0x374/0x664
    ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
   ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

To fix this, check for !dma_mapping_error() before calling
dma_unmap_single() on the "theend_iv" path.

Weakness: CWE-401 (Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38300?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-38300?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-38300 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38300 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38300 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-38300 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38300 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38300/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38300/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38300
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38300
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-38300

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.