# CVE-2025-68222: pinctrl: s32cc: fix uninitialized memory in s32_pinctrl_desc

> Uninitialized memory in the S32CC pinctrl driver can cause allocation errors and potential information disclosure or denial of service.

- **Severity:** Not scored
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-68222, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68222, GHSA-8gxf-m4jm-cw42, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-68222, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68222

## What is CVE-2025-68222?

CVE-2025-68222 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 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:

pinctrl: s32cc: fix uninitialized memory in s32_pinctrl_desc

s32_pinctrl_desc is allocated with devm_kmalloc(), but not all of its
fields are initialized. Notably, num_custom_params is used in
pinconf_generic_parse_dt_config(), resulting in intermittent allocation
errors, such as the following splat when probing i2c-imx:

        WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 176 at mm/page_alloc.c:4795 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x290/0x300
        [...]
        Hardware name: NXP S32G3 Reference Design Board 3 (S32G-VNP-RDB3) (DT)
        [...]
        Call trace:
         __alloc_pages_noprof+0x290/0x300 (P)
         ___kmalloc_large_node+0x84/0x168
         __kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x34/0x120
         __kmalloc_noprof+0x2ac/0x378
         pinconf_generic_parse_dt_config+0x68/0x1a0
         s32_dt_node_to_map+0x104/0x248
         dt_to_map_one_config+0x154/0x1d8
         pinctrl_dt_to_map+0x12c/0x280
         create_pinctrl+0x6c/0x270
         pinctrl_get+0xc0/0x170
         devm_pinctrl_get+0x50/0xa0
         pinctrl_bind_pins+0x60/0x2a0
         really_probe+0x60/0x3a0
        [...]
         __platform_driver_register+0x2c/0x40
         i2c_adap_imx_init+0x28/0xff8 [i2c_imx]
        [...]

This results in later parse failures that can cause issues in dependent
drivers:

        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c0-pins/i2c0-grp0: could not parse node property
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c0-pins/i2c0-grp0: could not parse node property
        [...]
        pca953x 0-0022: failed writing register: -6
        i2c i2c-0: IMX I2C adapter registered
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c2-pins/i2c2-grp0: could not parse node property
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c2-pins/i2c2-grp0: could not parse node property
        i2c i2c-1: IMX I2C adapter registered
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c4-pins/i2c4-grp0: could not parse node property
        s32g-siul2-pinctrl 4009c240.pinctrl: /soc@0/pinctrl@4009c240/i2c4-pins/i2c4-grp0: could not parse node property
        i2c i2c-2: IMX I2C adapter registered

Fix this by initializing s32_pinctrl_desc with devm_kzalloc() instead of
devm_kmalloc() in s32_pinctrl_probe(), which sets the previously
uninitialized fields to zero.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68222?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-68222?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-68222 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68222 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68222 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-68222 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 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-2025-68222 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: 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-2025-68222/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68222/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68222
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68222
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-68222

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68222/
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