CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-37813

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-05-08 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
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