CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-37813

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the USB xHCI driver has an invalid pointer dereference in the Etron workaround code. The check enqueue + 1 may point beyond the segment, causing a crash or data corruption.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can trigger a system crash or data corruption by sending specially crafted transfer requests to an Etron USB controller.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that replaces the unsafe enqueue + 1 check with an equivalent test that does not dereference the pointer.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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