Bug 2363276 (CVE-2025-37755)

Summary: CVE-2025-37755 kernel: net: libwx: handle page_pool_dev_alloc_pages error
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 14:01:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: libwx: handle page_pool_dev_alloc_pages error

page_pool_dev_alloc_pages could return NULL. There was a WARN_ON(!page)
but it would still proceed to use the NULL pointer and then crash.

This is similar to commit 001ba0902046
("net: fec: handle page_pool_dev_alloc_pages error").

This is found by our static analysis tool KNighter.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 03:26:57 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050138-CVE-2025-37755-00b5@gregkh/T