CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38272

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.22%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the DSA b53 driver was fixed to avoid enabling EEE on BCM63xx internal switches, which do not support EEE. This could hang the system when accessing non-existent EEE registers if an external EEE-capable PHY is connected to an RGMII port.

Risk Assessment

May cause system hangs on devices with BCM63xx switches and external EEE-capable PHYs, leading to network service unavailability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that checks EEE support before configuration.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: b53: do not enable EEE on bcm63xx BCM63xx internal switches do not support EEE, but provide multiple RGMII ports where external PHYs may be connected. If one of these PHYs are EEE capable, we may try to enable EEE for the MACs, which then hangs the system on access of the (non-existent) EEE registers. Fix this by checking if the switch actually supports EEE before attempting to configure it.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS