net: phy: clear phydev->devlink when the link is deleted (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-38149
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: clear phydev->devlink when the link is deleted There is a potential crash issue when disabling and re-enabling the network port. When disabling the network port, phy_detach() calls device_link_del() to remove the device link, but it does not clear phydev->devlink, so phydev->devlink is not a NULL pointer. Then the network port is re-enabled, but if phy_attach_direct() fails before calling device_link_add(), the code jumps to the "error" label and calls phy_detach(). Since phydev->devlink retains the old value from the previous attach/detach cycle, device_link_del() uses the old value, which accesses a NULL pointer and causes a crash. The simplified crash log is as follows. [ 24.702421] Call trace: [ 24.704856] device_link_put_kref+0x20/0x120 [ 24.709124] device_link_del+0x30/0x48 [ 24.712864] phy_detach+0x24/0x168 [ 24.716261] phy_attach_direct+0x168/0x3a4 [ 24.720352] phylink_fwnode_phy_connect+0xc8/0x14c [ 24.725140] phylink_of_phy_connect+0x1c/0x34 Therefore, phydev->devlink needs to be cleared when the device link is deleted.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected bc66fa87d4fda9053a8145e5718fc278c2b88253 < 363fdf2777423ad346d781f09548cca14877f729 ; affected bc66fa87d4fda9053a8145e5718fc278c2b88253 < ddc654e89ace723b78c34911c65243accbc9b75c ; affected bc66fa87d4fda9053a8145e5718fc278c2b88253 < 034bc4a2a72dea2cfcaf24c6bae03c38ad5a0b87 ; affected bc66fa87d4fda9053a8145e5718fc278c2b88253 < 0795b05a59b1371b18ffbf09d385296b12e9f5d5
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.2 ; unaffected 0 < 6.2 ; unaffected 6.6.94 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.34 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.15.3 ≤ 6.15.* ; unaffected 6.16 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD