Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 16, 2025
net: libwx: fix the using of Rx buffer DMA
CVE-2025-38533
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: libwx: fix the using of Rx buffer DMA
The wx_rx_buffer structure contained two DMA address fields: 'dma' and 'page_dma'. However, only 'page_dma' was actually initialized and used to program the Rx descriptor. But 'dma' was uninitialized and used in some paths.
This could lead to undefined behavior, including DMA errors or use-after-free, if the uninitialized 'dma' was used. Althrough such error has not yet occurred, it is worth fixing in the code.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.3
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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