CVE-2025-37989

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 6.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (12)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.4.293
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
linux/linux_kernel
debian/debian_linux
linux/Kernel < 5.4.293linux
linux/Kernel < 5.10.237linux
linux/Kernel < 5.15.181linux
linux/Kernel < 6.1.136linux
linux/Kernel < 6.6.89linux
linux/Kernel < 6.12.26linux
linux/Kernel < 6.14.5linux

Timeline

Published May 20, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026