CVE-2025-37935 (GCVE-0-2025-37935)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 15:21 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:58
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Title
net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix SER panic with 4GB+ RAM
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix SER panic with 4GB+ RAM If the mtk_poll_rx() function detects the MTK_RESETTING flag, it will jump to release_desc and refill the high word of the SDP on the 4GB RFB. Subsequently, mtk_rx_clean will process an incorrect SDP, leading to a panic. Add patch from MediaTek's SDK to resolve this.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2d75891ebc09ba9cf30697dfd54497ef0220308f , < cb625f783f70dc6614f03612b8e64ad99cb0a13c (git)
Affected: 2d75891ebc09ba9cf30697dfd54497ef0220308f , < 317013d1ad13524be02d60b9e98f08fbd13f8c14 (git)
Affected: 2d75891ebc09ba9cf30697dfd54497ef0220308f , < 67619cf69dec5d1d7792808dfa548616742dd51d (git)
Affected: 2d75891ebc09ba9cf30697dfd54497ef0220308f , < 6e0490fc36cdac696f96e57b61d93b9ae32e0f4c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.90 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.28 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.6 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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