CVE-2025-39937
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
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
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.15%• Percentile: 4%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Systems
- debian•linux
< 5.10.247-1 | < 6.1.158-1 | < 6.12.57-1 | < 6.16.9-1
- debian•linux-6.1
< 6.1.158-1~deb11u1
- ubuntu•linux
all | < 5.15.0-170.180 | < 6.8.0-106.106
- ubuntu•linux-allwinner-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws
all | < 5.15.0-1100.107 | < 6.8.0-1050.53
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.0
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.15
< 5.15.0-1100.107~20.04.2
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-6.8
< 6.8.0-1050.53~22.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-aws-fips
all | < 5.15.0-1100.107+fips1 | < 6.8.0-1050.53+fips1
- ubuntu•linux-aws-hwe
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure
all | all | < 5.15.0-1109.118 | < 6.8.0-1051.57
- ubuntu•linux-azure-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.15
< 5.15.0-1110.119~20.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.4
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.5
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-6.8
< 6.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-azure-edge
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde
all | all | all | all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-5.19
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.2
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.8
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-fips
all | < 5.15.0-1109.118+fips1 | < 6.8.0-1052.58+fips1
- ubuntu•linux-azure-nvidia
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-nvidia-6.14
all
- ubuntu•linux-bluefield
all | all | < 5.15.0-1084.86 | < 6.8.0-1017.21
- ubuntu•linux-fips
all | < 5.15.0-170.180+fips1 | < 6.8.0-106.106+fips1
- ubuntu•linux-gcp
all | all | < 5.15.0-1100.109 | < 6.8.0-1052.55
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.11
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.13
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.15
< 5.15.0-1100.109~20.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.19
all
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References (36)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/184f608a68f96794e8fe58cd5535014d53622cde
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8793e7a8e1b60131a825457174ed6398111daeb7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ada2282259243387e6b6e89239aeb4897e62f051
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47ade5f9d70b23a119ec20b1c6504864b2543a79
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689aee35ce671aab752f159e5c8e66d7685e6887
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21ba85d9d508422ca9e6698463ff9357c928c22d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21a39b958b4bcf44f7674bfbbe1bbb8cad0d842d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6f56a44e4c1014b08859dcf04ed246500e310e5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39937
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39937
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/b6f56a44e4c1014b08859dcf04ed246500e310e5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8034-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8034-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-6
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-7
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8033-8
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8095-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8100-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8095-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8095-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8095-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8125-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8126-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8095-5
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8141-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8163-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8165-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8163-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8243-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8261-1
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-39937