What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-37917?

CVE-2025-37917 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.5 (Medium). CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.1%.

Which versions of Debian Linux are affected by CVE-2025-37917?

CVE-2025-37917 presents moderate security risk rated CVSS 5.5. Exploitation could compromise the security of affected deployments.. A patch is available.

How to fix or mitigate CVE-2025-37917?

Within 30 days: Identify affected systems and apply vendor patches as part of regular patch cycle. Vendor patch is available.

Debian Linux CVE-2025-37917

MEDIUM

2025-05-20 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Information Disclosure Linux Red Hat Mediatek Debian Linux Linux Kernel Suse

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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

Analysis Generated

Mar 28, 2026 - 18:42 vuln.today

Patch released

Mar 28, 2026 - 18:42 nvd

Patch available

CVE Published

May 20, 2025 - 16:15 nvd

MEDIUM 5.5

DescriptionNVD

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

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll

Use spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore instead of spin_lock and spin_unlock in mtk_star_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion occurrence that can happen when enabling the DMA interrupts again in rx/tx poll.

BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0/0
 lock: 0xffff00000db9cf20, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0,
    .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
    6.15.0-rc2-next-20250417-00001-gf6a27738686c-dirty #28 PREEMPT
Hardware name: MediaTek MT8365 Open Platform EVK (DT)
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
 dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
 dump_stack+0x18/0x24
 spin_dump+0x78/0x88
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x11c/0x120
 _raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x2c
 mtk_star_handle_irq+0xc0/0x22c [mtk_star_emac]
 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140
 handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb0
 handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa0/0x1bc
 handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58
 generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
 gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120
 do_interrupt_handler+0x50/0x84
 el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
 regmap_mmio_read32le+0xc/0x20 (P)
 _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x6c/0xac
 _regmap_read+0x60/0xdc
 regmap_read+0x4c/0x80
 mtk_star_rx_poll+0x2f4/0x39c [mtk_star_emac]
 __napi_poll+0x38/0x188
 net_rx_action+0x164/0x2c0
 handle_softirqs+0x100/0x244
 __do_softirq+0x14/0x20
 ____do_softirq+0x10/0x20
 call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x64
 do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x40
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd4/0x10c
 irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c
 el1_interrupt+0x38/0x68
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
 cpuidle_enter_state+0xac/0x320 (P)
 cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50
 do_idle+0x1e4/0x260
 cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c
 rest_init+0xdc/0xe0
 console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c
 __primary_switched+0x88/0x90

AnalysisAI

Technical ContextAI

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll Use spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore instead of spin_lock and spin_unlock in mtk_star_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion occurrence that can happen when enabling the DMA interrupts again in rx/tx poll. ` BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0/0 lock: 0xffff00000db9cf20, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0, .owner_cpu: 0 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-next-20250417-00001-gf6a27738686c-dirty #28 PREEMPT Hardware name: MediaTek MT8365 Open Platform EVK (DT) Call trace: show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C) dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80 dump_stack+0x18/0x24 spin_dump+0x78/0x88 do_raw_spin_lock+0x11c/0x120 _raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x2c mtk_star_handle_irq+0xc0/0x22c [mtk_star_emac] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140 handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb0 handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa0/0x1bc handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58 generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28 gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120 do_interrupt_handler+0x50/0x84 el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70 regmap_mmio_read32le+0xc/0x20 (P) _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x6c/0xac _regmap_read+0x60/0xdc regmap_read+0x4c/0x80 mtk_star_rx_poll+0x2f4/0x39c [mtk_star_emac] __napi_poll+0x38/0x188 net_rx_action+0x164/0x2c0 handle_softirqs+0x100/0x244 __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 ____do_softirq+0x10/0x20 call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x64 do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x40 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd4/0x10c irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c el1_interrupt+0x38/0x68 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70 cpuidle_enter_state+0xac/0x320 (P) cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50 do_idle+0x1e4/0x260 cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c rest_init+0xdc/0xe0 console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c __primary_switched+0x88/0x90 ` Affected products include: Linux Linux Kernel, Debian Debian Linux.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.