5.5

CVE-2025-39937

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
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.6 < 5.4.300
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.245
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.194
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.154
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.108
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.49
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.16.9
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Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.12
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.