CVE-2025-39937: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer Since commit 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable. On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752" acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id: rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data; and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash. rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash by initializing type_name to NULL. Note likely sofar this has not been caught because: 1. Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device 2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.6, before 5.4.300 (fixed in 5.4.300); from 5.5, before 5.10.245 (fixed in 5.10.245); from 5.11, before 5.15.194 (fixed in 5.15.194); from 5.16, before 6.1.154 (fixed in 6.1.154); from 6.2, before 6.6.108 (fixed in 6.6.108); from 6.7, before 6.12.49 (fixed in 6.12.49); …

Published 2025-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.