CVE-2025-39897

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

01/10/2025

Last modified:

14/01/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: xilinx: axienet: Add error handling for RX metadata pointer retrieval Add proper error checking for dmaengine_desc_get_metadata_ptr() which can return an error pointer and lead to potential crashes or undefined behaviour if the pointer retrieval fails. Properly handle the error by unmapping DMA buffer, freeing the skb and returning early to prevent further processing with invalid data.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.8 (including)	6.12.46 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.16.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-39897

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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