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Linux Kernel CVE-2025-21750

MEDIUM
NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
2025-02-27 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Apple Null Pointer Dereference Linux Denial Of Service Linux Kernel iOS Red Hat Suse
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative
Red Hat
4.4 LOW
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Analysis Generated
Mar 28, 2026 - 18:28 vuln.today
Patch released
Mar 28, 2026 - 18:28 nvd
Patch available
CVE Published
Feb 27, 2025 - 03:15 nvd
MEDIUM 5.5

DescriptionCVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: Check the return value of of_property_read_string_index()

Somewhen between 6.10 and 6.11 the driver started to crash on my MacBookPro14,3. The property doesn't exist and 'tmp' remains uninitialized, so we pass a random pointer to devm_kstrdup().

The crash I am getting looks like this:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f033c669379 PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode PF: error_code(0x0001) - permissions violation PGD 8000000101341067 P4D 8000000101341067 PUD 101340067 PMD 1013bb067 PTE 800000010aee9025 Oops: Oops: 0001 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 827 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.11.8-gentoo #1 Hardware name: Apple Inc. MacBookPro14,3/Mac-551B86E5744E2388, BIOS 529.140.2.0.0 06/23/2024 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x4/0x30 Code: f7 75 ec 31 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa <80> 3f 00 74 14 48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 c3 cc RSP: 0018:ffffb4aac0683ad8 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 00000000ffffffea RBX: 00007f033c669379 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000cc0 RSI: 00007f033c669379 RDI: 00007f033c669379 RBP: 00000000ffffffea R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000c0ba916a R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: ffffffffb61ea260 R12: ffff91f7815b50c8 R13: 0000000000000cc0 R14: ffff91fafefffe30 R15: ffffb4aac0683b30 FS: 00007f033ccbe8c0(0000) GS:ffff91faeed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f033c669379 CR3: 0000000107b1e004 CR4: 00000000003706f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x23/0x70 ? page_fault_oops+0x149/0x4c0 ? raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0xe/0x20 ? sched_balance_newidle+0x22b/0x3c0 ? update_load_avg+0x78/0x770 ? exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x150 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 ? __pfx_pci_conf1_write+0x10/0x10 ? strlen+0x4/0x30 devm_kstrdup+0x25/0x70 brcmf_of_probe+0x273/0x350 [brcmfmac]

AnalysisAI

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: Check the return value of of_property_read_string_index() Somewhen between 6.10 and 6.11 the driver started to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified as NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476), which allows attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: Check the return value of of_property_read_string_index() Somewhen between 6.10 and 6.11 the driver started to crash on my MacBookPro14,3. The property doesn't exist and 'tmp' remains uninitialized, so we pass a random pointer to devm_kstrdup(). The crash I am getting looks like this: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f033c669379 PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode PF: error_code(0x0001) - permissions violation PGD 8000000101341067 P4D 8000000101341067 PUD 101340067 PMD 1013bb067 PTE 800000010aee9025 Oops: Oops: 0001 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 827 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.11.8-gentoo #1 Hardware name: Apple Inc. MacBookPro14,3/Mac-551B86E5744E2388, BIOS 529.140.2.0.0 06/23/2024 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x4/0x30 Code: f7 75 ec 31 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa <80> 3f 00 74 14 48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 c3 cc RSP: 0018:ffffb4aac0683ad8 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 00000000ffffffea RBX: 00007f033c669379 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000cc0 RSI: 00007f033c669379 RDI: 00007f033c669379 RBP: 00000000ffffffea R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000c0ba916a R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: ffffffffb61ea260 R12: ffff91f7815b50c8 R13: 0000000000000cc0 R14: ffff91fafefffe30 R15: ffffb4aac0683b30 FS: 00007f033ccbe8c0(0000) GS:ffff91faeed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f033c669379 CR3: 0000000107b1e004 CR4: 00000000003706f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x23/0x70 ? page_fault_oops+0x149/0x4c0 ? raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0xe/0x20 ? sched_balance_newidle+0x22b/0x3c0 ? update_load_avg+0x78/0x770 ? exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x150 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 ? __pfx_pci_conf1_write+0x10/0x10 ? strlen+0x4/0x30 devm_kstrdup+0x25/0x70 brcmf_of_probe+0x273/0x350 [brcmfmac] Affected products include: Linux Linux Kernel.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Check pointers before dereferencing. Use static analysis tools to detect null pointer paths.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Medium
Product Status
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container:2.1.3-6.11 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/base-os-container:2.2.0-4.21 Image SL-Micro Image SL-Micro-Azure Image SL-Micro-BYOS-Azure Image SL-Micro-BYOS-EC2 Image SL-Micro-BYOS-GCE Image SL-Micro-EC2 Image SLE-Micro Image SLE-Micro-Azure Image SLE-Micro-BYOS Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2 Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-GCE Image SLE-Micro-EC2 Image SLE-Micro-GCE Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Proxy-BYOS-Azure Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Proxy-BYOS-EC2 Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Proxy-BYOS-GCE Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Server-Azure-llc Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Server-Azure-ltd Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Server-BYOS-Azure Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Server-BYOS-EC2 Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Server-BYOS-GCE Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Server-EC2-llc Image SUSE-Multi-Linux-Manager-Server-EC2-ltd Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container:2.1.3-6.12 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/kvm-os-container:2.2.0-4.20 Affected
Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/rt-os-container:2.1.3-7.15 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/rt-os-container:2.2.0-4.21 Affected
Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-HPC-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-ECS-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-On-Demand Affected
Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-SAP-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-SAP-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-SAP-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-SAP-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-SAP-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-SAP-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS-Production Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS-Production Affected

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