CVE-2025-38110

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds clause 45 read/write access When using publicly available tools like 'mdio-tools' to read/write data from/to network interface and its PHY via C45 (clause 45) mdiobus, there is no verification of parameters passed to the ioctl and it accepts any mdio address. Currently there is support for 32 addresses in kernel via PHY_MAX_ADDR define, but it is possible to pass higher value than that via ioctl. While read/write operation should generally fail in this case, mdiobus provides stats array, where wrong address may allow out-of-bounds read/write. Fix that by adding address verification before C45 read/write operation. While this excludes this access from any statistics, it improves security of read/write operation.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (5)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.3.0 - 6.6.94linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.34linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1
linux/linux_kernel 6.3 - 6.6.94
Published Jul 03, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026