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CVE-2025-37813

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

usb: xhci: Fix invalid pointer dereference in Etron workaround

This check is performed before prepare_transfer() and prepare_ring(), so enqueue can already point at the final link TRB of a segment. And indeed it will, some 0.4% of times this code is called.

Then enqueue + 1 is an invalid pointer. It will crash the kernel right away or load some junk which may look like a link TRB and cause the real link TRB to be replaced with a NOOP. This wouldn't end well.

Use a functionally equivalent test which doesn't dereference the pointer and always gives correct result.

Something has crashed my machine twice in recent days while playing with an Etron HC, and a control transfer stress test ran for confirmation has just crashed it again. The same test passes with this patch applied.

  • Published: May 8, 2025
  • Updated: Nov 13, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-37813
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 6.6.66 6.6.89
linux / linux_kernel 6.11.11 6.12
linux / linux_kernel 6.12.2 6.12.26
linux / linux_kernel 6.13 6.14.5
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc1 6.15-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc2 6.15-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc3 6.15-rc3.x