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GHSA-5GH2-95VW-62H6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-10 09:32 – Updated: 2025-11-20 18:31

Details

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

net: dsa: b53: do not enable EEE on bcm63xx

BCM63xx internal switches do not support EEE, but provide multiple RGMII ports where external PHYs may be connected. If one of these PHYs are EEE capable, we may try to enable EEE for the MACs, which then hangs the system on access of the (non-existent) EEE registers.

Fix this by checking if the switch actually supports EEE before attempting to configure it.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2025-38272 (GCVE-0-2025-38272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 07:41 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:24

Title

net: dsa: b53: do not enable EEE on bcm63xx

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: b53: do not enable EEE on bcm63xx BCM63xx internal switches do not support EEE, but provide multiple RGMII ports where external PHYs may be connected. If one of these PHYs are EEE capable, we may try to enable EEE for the MACs, which then hangs the system on access of the (non-existent) EEE registers. Fix this by checking if the switch actually supports EEE before attempting to configure it.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fbe3f4c57fda09f3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dbccf1eb8c04b84e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1237c2d4a8db79dfd…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 22256b0afb12333571ad11799fa68fd27e4f4e80 , < 3fbe3f4c57fda09f32e13fa05f53a0cc6f500619 (git) Affected: 22256b0afb12333571ad11799fa68fd27e4f4e80 , < 2dbccf1eb8c04b84ee3afdb1d6b787db02e7befc (git) Affected: 22256b0afb12333571ad11799fa68fd27e4f4e80 , < 1237c2d4a8db79dfd4369bff6930b0e385ed7d5c (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.46 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-5GH2-95VW-62H6

CVE-2025-38272 (GCVE-0-2025-38272)

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