CVE-2025-71094

Name	CVE-2025-71094
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: asix: validate PHY address before use The ASIX driver reads the PHY address from the USB device via asix_read_phy_addr(). A malicious or faulty device can return an invalid address (>= PHY_MAX_ADDR), which causes a warning in mdiobus_get_phy(): addr 207 out of range WARNING: drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:76 Validate the PHY address in asix_read_phy_addr() and remove the now-redundant check in ax88172a.c.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4476-1, DSA-6126-1, DSA-6127-1

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)	5.10.249-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.159-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.162-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.63-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.73-1	fixed
	forky, sid	6.18.12-1	fixed
linux-6.1 (PTS)	bullseye (security)	6.1.162-1~deb11u1	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	6.1.162-1	DSA-6127-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.69-1	DSA-6126-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.18.5-1
linux-6.1	source	bullseye	6.1.162-1~deb11u1	DLA-4476-1

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/a1e077a3f76eea0dc671ed6792e7d543946227e8 (6.19-rc4)