CVE-2025-38736

Name	CVE-2025-38736
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: asix_devices: Fix PHY address mask in MDIO bus initialization Syzbot reported shift-out-of-bounds exception on MDIO bus initialization. The PHY address should be masked to 5 bits (0-31). Without this mask, invalid PHY addresses could be used, potentially causing issues with MDIO bus operations. Fix this by masking the PHY address with 0x1f (31 decimal) to ensure it stays within the valid range.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-6008-1, DSA-6009-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.153-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.43-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.48-1	fixed
	forky	6.16.7-1	fixed
	sid	6.16.8-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.153-1	DSA-6009-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.48-1	DSA-6008-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.16.5-1

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/24ef2f53c07f273bad99173e27ee88d44d135b1c (6.17-rc3)