CVE-2025-71094

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.

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 3% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-20

Published

2026-01-13

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-21

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38722e69ee64dbb020028c93898d25d6f4c0e0b2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98a12c2547a44a5f03f35c108d2022cc652cbc4d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1e077a3f76eea0dc671ed6792e7d543946227e8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf8a0f3b787ca7c5889bfca12c60c483041fbee3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5f4f30f3811d37e1aa48667c36add74e5a8d99f

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