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)

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)	5.10.247-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.159-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.158-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.63-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.48-1	vulnerable
	forky	6.17.13-1	vulnerable
	sid	6.18.3-1	vulnerable

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

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