CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37787
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid unregistering devlink regions which were never registered
Russell King reports that a system with mv88e6xxx dereferences a NULL
pointer when unbinding this driver:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
The crash seems to be in devlink_region_destroy(), which is not NULL
tolerant but is given a NULL devlink global region pointer.
At least on some chips, some devlink regions are conditionally registered
since the blamed commit, see mv88e6xxx_setup_devlink_regions_global():
if (cond && !cond(chip))
continue;
These are MV88E6XXX_REGION_STU and MV88E6XXX_REGION_PVT. If the chip
does not have an STU or PVT, it should crash like this.
To fix the issue, avoid unregistering those regions which are NULL, i.e.
were skipped at mv88e6xxx_setup_devlink_regions_global() time.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.181)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.135)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.88)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.25)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3665695e3572239dc233216f06b41f40cc771889 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f5e95945bb1e08be7655da6acba648274db457d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ccdf5e24b276848eefb2755e05ff0f005a0c4a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3c70dfe51f10df60db2646c08cebd24bcdc5247 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbb80f004f7a90c3dcaacc982c59967457254a05 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c84f6ce918a9e6f4996597cbc62536bbf2247c96 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org