CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39937

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel rfkill-gpio driver, rfkill_find_type() is called with an uninitialized type_name variable when a BCM4752 or LNV4752 ACPI device lacks the "type" property. This can lead to a potential crash.

Risk Assessment

Can cause kernel crashes on some x86 machines with BCM4752/LNV4752 ACPI devices, though occurrences are rare.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version with the fix initializing type_name to NULL.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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

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