CVE-2025-38111
Published: Jul 3, 2025
Modified: May 12, 2026
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e - < 19c5875e26c4ed5686d82a7d8f7051385461b9ebaffected 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e - < 014ad9210373d2104f6ef10e6bb999a7a0a4c50eaffected 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e - < 73d478234a619f3476028cb02dee699c30ae8262affected 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e - < bab6bca0834cbb5be2a7cfe59ec6ad016ec72608affected 080bb352fad00d04995102f681b134e3754bfb6e - < b02d9d2732483e670bc34cb233d28e1d43b15da4+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.6unaffected 0 - < 5.6unaffected 5.10.239 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.186 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.142 - <= 6.1.*+4 more versions |
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