CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-40053

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.59%

45th percentile - higher than 45% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the D-Link network driver in the Linux kernel, a missing memory allocation failure handling was found in the copy_thresh function. A failed skb allocation can lead to NULL pointer dereference and system crash.

Risk Assessment

The bug can cause system crashes (kernel panic) under high network load or memory pressure on D-Link DGE-550T adapters.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix adding allocation failure handling.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dlink: handle copy_thresh allocation failure The driver did not handle failure of `netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()`. If the allocation failed, dereferencing `skb->protocol` could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. This patch tries to allocate `skb`. If the allocation fails, it falls back to the normal path. Tested-on: D-Link DGE-550T Rev-A3

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