CVE-2025-39937CWE-476

CVE-2025-39937

Medium · published October 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00147 · 3.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-10-04T12:15Z
Affected products (13)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.6, < 5.4.3005.4.300
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2455.10.245
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1945.15.194
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1546.1.154
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1086.6.108
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.496.12.49
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.16.96.16.9
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References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 07:31Z
    net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer
    cvelistv5