CVE-2025-37865

net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix -ENOENT when deleting VLANs and MST is unsupported

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 9, 2025 at 06:43 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:15 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsLinux KernelDebian Linux

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix -ENOENT when deleting VLANs and MST is unsupported Russell King reports that on the ZII dev rev B, deleting a bridge VLAN from a user port fails with -ENOENT: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/ This comes from mv88e6xxx_port_vlan_leave() -> mv88e6xxx_mst_put(), which tries to find an MST entry in &chip->msts associated with the SID, but fails and returns -ENOENT as such. But we know that this chip does not support MST at all, so that is not surprising. The question is why does the guard in mv88e6xxx_mst_put() not exit early: if (!sid) return 0; And the answer seems to be simple: the sid comes from vlan.sid which supposedly was previously populated by mv88e6xxx_vtu_get(). But some chip->info->ops->vtu_getnext() implementations do not populate vlan.sid, for example see mv88e6185_g1_vtu_getnext(). In that case, later in mv88e6xxx_port_vlan_leave() we are using a garbage sid which is just residual stack memory. Testing for sid == 0 covers all cases of a non-bridge VLAN or a bridge VLAN mapped to the default MSTI. For some chips, SID 0 is valid and installed by mv88e6xxx_stu_setup(). A chip which does not support the STU would implicitly only support mapping all VLANs to the default MSTI, so although SID 0 is not valid, it would be sufficient, if we were to zero-initialize the vlan structure, to fix the bug, due to the coincidence that a test for vlan.sid == 0 already exists and leads to the same (correct) behavior. Another option which would be sufficient would be to add a test for mv88e6xxx_has_stu() inside mv88e6xxx_mst_put(), symmetric to the one which already exists in mv88e6xxx_mst_get(). But that placement means the caller will have to dereference vlan.sid, which means it will access uninitialized memory, which is not nice even if it ignores it later. So we end up making both modifications, in order to not rely just on the sid == 0 coincidence, but also to avoid having uninitialized structure fields which might get temporarily accessed.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.18 ≤ v < 6.1.1355.18 ≤ v < 6.12.255.18 ≤ v < 6.14.45.18 ≤ v < 6.155.18 ≤ v < 6.6.886.13 ≤ v < 6.14.46.2 ≤ v < 6.6.886.7 ≤ v < 6.12.255.186.15 rc16.15 rc2acaf4d2e36b3466334af4d3ee6ac254c3316165c
Vendor states this is fixed in 35cde75c08a1fa1a5ac0467afe2709caceeef002 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9da4acbd60664271d34a627f7f63cd5bad8eba74 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9ee6d3a368ed34f2457863da3085c676e9e37a3d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in afae9087301471970254a9180e5a26d3d8e8af09 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ea08dfc35f83cfc73493c52f63ae4f2e29edfe8d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.135 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.25 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.88 (unaffected)

References (6)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35cde75c08a1fa1a5ac0467afe2709caceeef002
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9da4acbd60664271d34a627f7f63cd5bad8eba74
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee6d3a368ed34f2457863da3085c676e9e37a3d
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afae9087301471970254a9180e5a26d3d8e8af09
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea08dfc35f83cfc73493c52f63ae4f2e29edfe8d
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-908

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