CVE-2025-39784

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.13-6.16.3 - Denial of Service via PCIe Link Speed Calculation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: Fix link speed calculation on retrain failure When pcie_failed_link_retrain() fails to retrain, it tries to revert to the previous link speed. However it calculates that speed from the Link Control 2 register without masking out non-speed bits first. PCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() converts such incorrect values to PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN (0xff), which in turn causes a WARN splat in pcie_set_target_speed(): pci 0000:00:01.1: [1022:14ed] type 01 class 0x060400 PCIe Root Port pci 0000:00:01.1: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s pci 0000:00:01.1: retraining failed WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at drivers/pci/pcie/bwctrl.c:168 pcie_set_target_speed RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000000000ff RDI: ffff9acd82efa000 pcie_failed_link_retrain pci_device_add pci_scan_single_device Mask out the non-speed bits in PCIE_LNKCTL2_TLS2SPEED() and PCIE_LNKCAP_SLS2SPEED() so they don't incorrectly return PCI_SPEED_UNKNOWN. [bhelgaas: commit log, add details from https://lore.kernel.org/r/1c92ef6bcb314ee6977839b46b393282e4f52e74.1750684771.git.lukas@wunner.de]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (8)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.4linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.16.4 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux de9a6c8d5dbfedb5eb3722c822da0490f6a59a45 - 16557320f378262b5c605b15edebd3642406992a
Linux/Linux de9a6c8d5dbfedb5eb3722c822da0490f6a59a45 - 9989e0ca7462c62f93dbc62f684448aa2efb9226
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 - 6.16.4
Published Sep 11, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026