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Tracker / CVE-2025-71094

CVE-2025-71094

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: asix: validate PHY address before use The ASIX driver reads the PHY address from the USB device via asix_read_phy_addr(). A malicious or faulty device can return an invalid address (>= PHY_MAX_ADDR), which causes a warning in mdiobus_get_phy(): addr 207 out of range WARNING: drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:76 Validate the PHY address in asix_read_phy_addr() and remove the now-redundant check in ax88172a.c.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.13.13 → 5.14
linux linux_kernel · 5.14.1 → 5.15.198
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.160
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.4
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.120
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.64

Analysis

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