CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-39937

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-04 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
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