CVE-2025-21676

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.1-6.6.73, 6.7-6.12.10 - NULL Pointer Dereference in FEC Ethernet Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: handle page_pool_dev_alloc_pages error The fec_enet_update_cbd function calls page_pool_dev_alloc_pages but did not handle the case when it returned NULL. There was a WARN_ON(!new_page) but it would still proceed to use the NULL pointer and then crash. This case does seem somewhat rare but when the system is under memory pressure it can happen. One case where I can duplicate this with some frequency is when writing over a smbd share to a SATA HDD attached to an imx6q. Setting /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes to higher values also seems to solve the problem for my test case. But it still seems wrong that the fec driver ignores the memory allocation error and can crash. This commit handles the allocation error by dropping the current packet.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.6.74linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.11linux
Linux/Linux < 6.1
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux 6.1.167 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.11 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.6.74 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 95698ff6177b5f1f13f251da60e7348413046ae4 - 001ba0902046cb6c352494df610718c0763e77a5
Linux/Linux 95698ff6177b5f1f13f251da60e7348413046ae4 - 1425cb829556398f594658512d49292f988a2ab0
... and 4 more
Published Jan 31, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026