CVE-2025-38725: Debian Linux

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: net: usb: asix_devices: add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus Without setting phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus, current driver may create at most 32 mdio phy devices with phy address range from 0x00 ~ 0x1f. DLink DUB-E100 H/W Ver B1 is such a device. However, only one main phy device will bind to net phy driver. This is creating issue during system suspend/resume since phy_polling_mode() in phy_state_machine() will directly deference member of phydev->drv for non-main phy devices. Then NULL pointer dereference issue will occur. Due to only external phy or internal phy is necessary, add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus to workarnoud the issue.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.14, before 5.15.190 (fixed in 5.15.190); from 5.16, before 6.1.149 (fixed in 6.1.149); from 6.2, before 6.6.103 (fixed in 6.6.103); from 6.7, before 6.12.43 (fixed in 6.12.43); from 6.13, before 6.15.11 (fixed in 6.15.11); from 6.16, before 6.16.2 (fixed in 6.16.2); …

Published 2025-09-04. Last modified 2026-07-14.