CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37813
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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:
usb: xhci: Fix invalid pointer dereference in Etron workaround
This check is performed before prepare_transfer() and prepare_ring(), so
enqueue can already point at the final link TRB of a segment. And indeed
it will, some 0.4% of times this code is called.
Then enqueue + 1 is an invalid pointer. It will crash the kernel right
away or load some junk which may look like a link TRB and cause the real
link TRB to be replaced with a NOOP. This wouldn't end well.
Use a functionally equivalent test which doesn't dereference the pointer
and always gives correct result.
Something has crashed my machine twice in recent days while playing with
an Etron HC, and a control transfer stress test ran for confirmation has
just crashed it again. The same test passes with this patch applied.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.66 < 6.6.89)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11.11 < 6.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.2 < 6.12.26)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0624e29c595b05e7a0e6d1c368f0a05799928e30 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/142273a49f2c315eabdbdf5a71c15e479b75ca91 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ea050da5562af9b930d17cbbe9632d30f5df43a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bce3055b08e303e28a8751f6073066f5c33a0744 Patch