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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38348" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-10T08:15:15.883Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:26:15.183Z" 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-2025-38348" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38348.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38348" title: "wifi: p54: prevent buffer-overflow in p54_rx_eeprom_readback()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: p54: prevent buffer-overflow in p54_rx_eeprom_readback()\n\nRobert Morris reported:\n\n|If a malicious USB device pretends to be an Intersil p54 wifi\n|interface and generates an eeprom_readback message with a large\n|eeprom-\u003ev1.len, p54_rx_eeprom_readback() will copy data from the\n|message beyond the end of priv-\u003eeeprom.\n|\n|static void p54_rx_eeprom_readback(struct p54_common *priv,\n| struct sk_buff *skb)\n|{\n| struct p54_hdr *hdr = (struct p54_hdr *) skb-\u003edata;\n| struct p54_eeprom_lm86 *eeprom = (struct p54_eeprom_lm86 *) hdr-\u003edata;\n|\n| if (priv-\u003efw_var \u003e= 0x509) {\n| memcpy(priv-\u003eeeprom, eeprom-\u003ev2.data,\n| le16_to_cpu(eeprom-\u003ev2.len));\n| } else {\n| memcpy(priv-\u003eeeprom, eeprom-\u003ev1.data,\n| le16_to_cpu(eeprom-\u003ev1.len));\n| }\n| [...]\n\nThe eeprom-\u003ev{1,2}.len is set by the driver in p54_download_eeprom().\nThe device is supposed to provide the same length back to the driver.\nBut yes, it's possible (like shown in the report) to alter the value\nto something that causes a crash/panic due to overrun.\n\nThis patch addresses the issue by adding the size to the common device\ncontext, so p54_rx_eeprom_readback no longer relies on possibly tampered\nvalues... That said, it also checks if the \"firmware\" altered the value\nand no longer copies them.\n\nThe one, small saving grace is: Before the driver tries to read the eeprom,\nit needs to upload \u003ea\u003c firmware. the vendor firmware has a proprietary\nlicense and as a reason, it is not present on most distributions by\ndefault." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12134f79e53eb56b0b0b7447fa0c512acf6a8422"},{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9701f842031b825e2fd5f22d064166f8f13f6e4d"},{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f7f8168abe8cbe845ab8bb557228d44784a6b57"},{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f39b2f8c1549a539846e083790fad396ef6cd802"},{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e4dc150423b829c35cbcf399481ca11594fc036"},{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d05390d20f110de37d051a3e063ef0a542d01fb"},{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"714afb4c38edd19a057d519c1f9c5d164b43de94"},{"version":"7cb770729ba895f73253dfcd46c3fcba45d896f9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da1b9a55ff116cb040528ef664c70a4eec03ae99"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.28","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.28"},{"version":"5.4.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.239","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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