CVE-2025-37989
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: leds: fix memory leak A network restart test on a router led to an out-of-memory condition, which was traced to a memory leak in the PHY LED trigger code. The root cause is misuse of the devm API. The registration function (phy_led_triggers_register) is called from phy_attach_direct, not phy_probe, and the unregister function (phy_led_triggers_unregister) is called from phy_detach, not phy_remove. This means the register and unregister functions can be called multiple times for the same PHY device, but devm-allocated memory is not freed until the driver is unbound. This also prevents kmemleak from detecting the leak, as the devm API internally stores the allocated pointer. Fix this by replacing devm_kzalloc/devm_kcalloc with standard kzalloc/kcalloc, and add the corresponding kfree calls in the unregister path.
How to fix
- linux linux_kernel5.4.293, 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.136, 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 6.14.5 or later
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/41143e71052a00d654c15dc924fda50c1e7357d0
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/618541a6cc1511064dfa58c89b3445e21844092f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/663c3da86e807c6c07ed48f911c7526fad6fe1ff
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f3d5880800f962c347777c4f8358f29f5fc403c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/95bed65cc0eb2a610550abf849a8b94374da80a7
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/966d6494e2ed9be9052fcd9815afba830896aaf8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f0ee992adf601aa00c252418266177eb7ac2bc
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f41f097f68a33d392579885426d0734a81219501
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux linux_kernel | 4.10 ≤ v < 5.4.293, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.237, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.181, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.136, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.89, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.26, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.14.5, 6.15 | 5.4.293, 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 6.1.136, 6.6.89, 6.12.26, 6.14.5 |
| debian debian_linux | 11.0 | — |
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