CVE-2025-38725

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: asix_devices: add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus Without setting phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus, current driver may create at most 32 mdio phy devices with phy address range from 0x00 ~ 0x1f. DLink DUB-E100 H/W Ver B1 is such a device. However, only one main phy device will bind to net phy driver. This is creating issue during system suspend/resume since phy_polling_mode() in phy_state_machine() will directly deference member of phydev->drv for non-main phy devices. Then NULL pointer dereference issue will occur. Due to only external phy or internal phy is necessary, add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus to workarnoud the issue.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedSep 4, 2025
First seenSep 4, 2025

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel5.14 ≤ v < 5.15.190, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.149, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.103, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.43, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.15.11, 6.16 ≤ v < 6.16.2, 6.175.15.190, 6.1.149, 6.6.103, 6.12.43, 6.15.11, 6.16.2
debian debian_linux11.0—

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