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CVE-2025-71094
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-01-13T16:16:09.150 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:03:39.053

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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