CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39937
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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: 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
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.6 < 5.4.300)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.245)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.194)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.154)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.108)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.49)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.16.9)
• linux linux kernel 6.17
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/184f608a68f96794e8fe58cd5535014d53622cde Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21a39b958b4bcf44f7674bfbbe1bbb8cad0d842d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21ba85d9d508422ca9e6698463ff9357c928c22d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47ade5f9d70b23a119ec20b1c6504864b2543a79 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689aee35ce671aab752f159e5c8e66d7685e6887 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8793e7a8e1b60131a825457174ed6398111daeb7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ada2282259243387e6b6e89239aeb4897e62f051 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6f56a44e4c1014b08859dcf04ed246500e310e5 Patch