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CVE-2025-38111

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds read/write access

When using publicly available tools like 'mdio-tools' to read/write data
from/to network interface and its PHY via mdiobus, there is no verification of
parameters passed to the ioctl and it accepts any mdio address.
Currently there is support for 32 addresses in kernel via PHY_MAX_ADDR define,
but it is possible to pass higher value than that via ioctl.
While read/write operation should generally fail in this case,
mdiobus provides stats array, where wrong address may allow out-of-bounds
read/write.

Fix that by adding address verification before read/write operation.
While this excludes this access from any statistics, it improves security of
read/write operation.

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VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 19c5875e26c4ed5686d82a7d8f7051385461b9eb
Version 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e
Status affected
Version < 014ad9210373d2104f6ef10e6bb999a7a0a4c50e
Version 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e
Status affected
Version < 73d478234a619f3476028cb02dee699c30ae8262
Version 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e
Status affected
Version < bab6bca0834cbb5be2a7cfe59ec6ad016ec72608
Version 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e
Status affected
Version < b02d9d2732483e670bc34cb233d28e1d43b15da4
Version 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e
Status affected
Version < 049af7ac45a6b407748ee0995278fd861e36df8f
Version 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e
Status affected
Version < 0e629694126ca388916f059453a1c36adde219c4
Version 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e
Status affected
VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 5.6
Status affected
Version < 5.6
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.10.*
Version 5.10.239
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.15.*
Version 5.15.186
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.142
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.94
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.34
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.15.*
Version 6.15.3
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.16
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.097
CVSS Metriken
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