# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38725"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:33:23.468Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:49.441Z"
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-2025-38725"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38725.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38725"
title: "net: usb: asix_devices: add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: usb: asix_devices: add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus\n\nWithout setting phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus, current driver may create\nat most 32 mdio phy devices with phy address range from 0x00 ~ 0x1f.\nDLink DUB-E100 H/W Ver B1 is such a device. However, only one main phy\ndevice will bind to net phy driver. This is creating issue during system\nsuspend/resume since phy_polling_mode() in phy_state_machine() will\ndirectly deference member of phydev-\u003edrv for non-main phy devices. Then\nNULL pointer dereference issue will occur. Due to only external phy or\ninternal phy is necessary, add phy_mask for ax88772 mdio bus to workarnoud\nthe issue."
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