CVE-2025-37989
Published: May 20, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: leds: fix memory leak A network restart test on a router led to an out-of-memory condition, which was traced to a memory leak in the PHY LED trigger code. The root cause is misuse of the devm API. The registration function (phy_led_triggers_register) is called from phy_attach_direct, not phy_probe, and the unregister function (phy_led_triggers_unregister) is called from phy_detach, not phy_remove. This means the register and unregister functions can be called multiple times for the same PHY device, but devm-allocated memory is not freed until the driver is unbound. This also prevents kmemleak from detecting the leak, as the devm API internally stores the allocated pointer. Fix this by replacing devm_kzalloc/devm_kcalloc with standard kzalloc/kcalloc, and add the corresponding kfree calls in the unregister path.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 - < 966d6494e2ed9be9052fcd9815afba830896aaf8affected 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 - < 95bed65cc0eb2a610550abf849a8b94374da80a7affected 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 - < 663c3da86e807c6c07ed48f911c7526fad6fe1ffaffected 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 - < f41f097f68a33d392579885426d0734a81219501affected 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 - < 618541a6cc1511064dfa58c89b3445e21844092f+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.10unaffected 0 - < 4.10unaffected 5.4.293 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.237 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.181 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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