CVE-2025-39937

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.6-6.16.8 NULL Pointer Dereference in rfkill-gpio

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer Since commit 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable. On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752" acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id: rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data; and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash. rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash by initializing type_name to NULL. Note likely sofar this has not been caught because: 1. Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device 2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 3.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 4.6.0 - 5.4.300linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.194linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.154linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.245linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.9linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.108linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.49linux
Linux/Linux < 4.6
Linux/Linux 4.6
Linux/Linux 5.10.245 - 5.10.*
... and 17 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026