5.5

CVE-2025-38125: net: stmmac: make sure that ptp_rate is not 0 before configuring EST

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38125DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38125
Published 03-07-2025Last modified 15-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-38125 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.19%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 54 · Related 52
DLA-4476-1DSA-6127-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1SUSE-SU-2025:03272-1SUSE-SU-2025:03290-1SUSE-SU-2025:03301-1

Timeline

  1. 03-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: stmmac: make sure that ptp_rate is not 0 before configuring EST If the ptp_rate recorded earlier in the driver happens to be 0, this bogus value will propagate up to EST configuration, where it will trigger a division by 0. Prevent this division by 0 by adding the corresponding check and error code.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.19%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

9%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.19% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu133 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-176.186 | < 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1105.112 | < 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 8572aec3d0dc43045254fd1bf581fb980bfdbc4b, < b15c9a21950e1af6d440ce5a8edfa8a94b9acb9b | ≥ 8572aec3d0dc43045254fd1bf581fb980bfdbc4b, < d6b0f7ed3e9b6c5e2e3a006c8f72c95aa4ac4b74 | ≥ 8572aec3d0dc43045254fd1bf581fb980bfdbc4b, < b92ec4a848728460f181def33735605f154d438f | ≥ 8572aec3d0dc43045254fd1bf581fb980bfdbc4b, < 451ee661d0f6272017fa012f99617101aa8ddf2c | ≥ 8572aec3d0dc43045254fd1bf581fb980bfdbc4b, < d5e3bfdba0dc419499b801937128957f77503761 | ≥ 8572aec3d0dc43045254fd1bf581fb980bfdbc4b, < cbefe2ffa7784525ec5d008ba87c7add19ec631a | 5.6
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.6, < 6.12.34 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.162-1 | < 6.12.35-1

3 vendors · 136 products

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