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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-38153

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/03/2025 5:15:30 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net: usb: aqc111: fix error handling of usbnet read calls

Syzkaller, courtesy of syzbot, identified an error (see report [1]) in
aqc111 driver, caused by incomplete sanitation of usb read calls'
results. This problem is quite similar to the one fixed in commit
920a9fa27e78 ("net: asix: add proper error handling of usb read errors").

For instance, usbnet_read_cmd() may read fewer than 'size' bytes,
even if the caller expected the full amount, and aqc111_read_cmd()
will not check its result properly. As [1] shows, this may lead
to MAC address in aqc111_bind() being only partly initialized,
triggering KMSAN warnings.

Fix the issue by verifying that the number of bytes read is
as expected and not less.

[1] Partial syzbot report:
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in is_valid_ether_addr include/linux/etherdevice.h:208 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in usbnet_probe+0x2e57/0x4390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1830
 is_valid_ether_addr include/linux/etherdevice.h:208 [inline]
 usbnet_probe+0x2e57/0x4390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1830
 usb_probe_interface+0xd01/0x1310 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x4d1/0xd90 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x268/0x380 drivers/base/dd.c:800
...

Uninit was stored to memory at:
 dev_addr_mod+0xb0/0x550 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:582
 __dev_addr_set include/linux/netdevice.h:4874 [inline]
 eth_hw_addr_set include/linux/etherdevice.h:325 [inline]
 aqc111_bind+0x35f/0x1150 drivers/net/usb/aqc111.c:717
 usbnet_probe+0xbe6/0x4390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1772
 usb_probe_interface+0xd01/0x1310 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
...

Uninit was stored to memory at:
 ether_addr_copy include/linux/etherdevice.h:305 [inline]
 aqc111_read_perm_mac drivers/net/usb/aqc111.c:663 [inline]
 aqc111_bind+0x794/0x1150 drivers/net/usb/aqc111.c:713
 usbnet_probe+0xbe6/0x4390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1772
 usb_probe_interface+0xd01/0x1310 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
...

Local variable buf.i created at:
 aqc111_read_perm_mac drivers/net/usb/aqc111.c:656 [inline]
 aqc111_bind+0x221/0x1150 drivers/net/usb/aqc111.c:713
 usbnet_probe+0xbe6/0x4390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1772
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11273279012c922f37cfb4dd95d142803fc07b98
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30a9e834c74e260533b8d0885e3c89f6f32f7993
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/405b0d610745fb5e84fc2961d9b960abb9f3d107
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60790d287c1a1ced3554d4a87c2f27bf299a932a
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c01863b1c47f040d9674171e77789a423b9b128
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c97655275482ef5384ce0501640630a0fc0f6f4
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acb47a40b5e38be03ef659b7bacdddc592ed73b7
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f398d2dfe450ce2c031d10b585448862d74a0501