# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37791"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T13:07:24.062Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:51:59.849Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37791"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37791.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37791"
title: "ethtool: cmis_cdb: use correct rpl size in ethtool_cmis_module_poll()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nethtool: cmis_cdb: use correct rpl size in ethtool_cmis_module_poll()\n\nrpl is passed as a pointer to ethtool_cmis_module_poll(), so the correct\nsize of rpl is sizeof(*rpl) which should be just 1 byte.  Using the\npointer size instead can cause stack corruption:\n\nKernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: ethtool_cmis_wait_for_cond+0xf4/0x100\nCPU: 72 UID: 0 PID: 4440 Comm: kworker/72:2 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE      6.11.0 #24\nTainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE\nHardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R760/04GWWM, BIOS 1.6.6 09/20/2023\nWorkqueue: events module_flash_fw_work\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n panic+0x339/0x360\n ? ethtool_cmis_wait_for_cond+0xf4/0x100\n ? __pfx_status_success+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_status_fail+0x10/0x10\n __stack_chk_fail+0x10/0x10\n ethtool_cmis_wait_for_cond+0xf4/0x100\n ethtool_cmis_cdb_execute_cmd+0x1fc/0x330\n ? __pfx_status_fail+0x10/0x10\n cmis_cdb_module_features_get+0x6d/0xd0\n ethtool_cmis_cdb_init+0x8a/0xd0\n ethtool_cmis_fw_update+0x46/0x1d0\n module_flash_fw_work+0x17/0xa0\n process_one_work+0x179/0x390\n worker_thread+0x239/0x340\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0xcc/0x100\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a39c84d796254e6b1662ca0c46dbc313379e9291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61765e1b417a23371c3735e3cddf4ad9354ed2e9"},{"version":"a39c84d796254e6b1662ca0c46dbc313379e9291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7eb0a0072f966bb0b01d8b7d529d9743a7187bd1"},{"version":"a39c84d796254e6b1662ca0c46dbc313379e9291","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f3fdd4fba16c74697d8bc730b82fb7c1eff7fab3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.25","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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