CVE-2025-37813: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.6.66, before 6.6.89 (fixed in 6.6.89); from 6.11.11, before 6.12 (fixed in 6.12); from 6.12.2, before 6.12.26 (fixed in 6.12.26); from 6.13, before 6.14.5 (fixed in 6.14.5); version 6.15 only

Published 2025-05-08. Last modified 2026-07-30.