CVE-2025-38110CWE-125

CVE-2025-38110

High · published July 3, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds clause 45 read/write access

When using publicly available tools like 'mdio-tools' to read/write data

from/to network interface and its PHY via C45 (clause 45) 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 C45 read/write operation.

While this excludes this access from any statistics, it improves security of

read/write operation.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00198 · 9.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2025-07-03T13:15Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.3, < 6.6.946.6.94
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.346.12.34
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.36.15.3
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUL 08:35Z
    net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds clause 45 read/write access
    cvelistv5