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CVE-2025-71094

net: usb: asix: validate PHY address before use

Description

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 7e88b11a862afe59ee0c365123ea5fb96a26cb3b to < fc96018f09f8d30586ca6582c5045a84eafef146affected
  • 7e88b11a862afe59ee0c365123ea5fb96a26cb3b to < f5f4f30f3811d37e1aa48667c36add74e5a8d99faffected
  • 7e88b11a862afe59ee0c365123ea5fb96a26cb3b to < 38722e69ee64dbb020028c93898d25d6f4c0e0b2affected
  • 7e88b11a862afe59ee0c365123ea5fb96a26cb3b to < 98a12c2547a44a5f03f35c108d2022cc652cbc4daffected
  • 7e88b11a862afe59ee0c365123ea5fb96a26cb3b to < bf8a0f3b787ca7c5889bfca12c60c483041fbee3affected
  • 7e88b11a862afe59ee0c365123ea5fb96a26cb3b to < a1e077a3f76eea0dc671ed6792e7d543946227e8affected
  • 4e4f3cb41d687bd64cd03358862b23c84d82329eaffected
  • 5.13.13 to < 5.14affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.14affected
  • 0 to < 5.14unaffected
  • 5.15.198 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.160 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.120 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.64 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.4 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19 to ≤ *unaffected

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