Bug 2379213 (CVE-2025-38272) - CVE-2025-38272 kernel: net: dsa: b53: do not enable EEE on bcm63xx
Summary: CVE-2025-38272 kernel: net: dsa: b53: do not enable EEE on bcm63xx
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38272
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-10 08:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-11 07:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 08:03:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dsa: b53: do not enable EEE on bcm63xx

BCM63xx internal switches do not support EEE, but provide multiple RGMII
ports where external PHYs may be connected. If one of these PHYs are EEE
capable, we may try to enable EEE for the MACs, which then hangs the
system on access of the (non-existent) EEE registers.

Fix this by checking if the switch actually supports EEE before
attempting to configure it.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 07:44:23 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071008-CVE-2025-38272-2f33@gregkh/T


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