# 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-2025-39937"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T07:31:00.879Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:39:18.519Z"
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-2025-39937"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39937.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39937"
title: "net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer\n\nSince commit 7d5e9737efda (\"net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from\ndevice property\") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly\nuninitialized \"const char *type_name;\" local variable.\n\nOn x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a \"BCM4752\" or \"LNV4752\"\nacpi_device, the rfkill-\u003etype is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id:\n\n        rfkill-\u003etype = (unsigned)id-\u003edriver_data;\n\nand there is no \"type\" property so device_property_read_string() will fail\nand leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash.\n\nrfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash\nby initializing type_name to NULL.\n\nNote likely sofar this has not been caught because:\n\n1. Not many x86 machines actually have a \"BCM4752\"/\"LNV4752\" acpi_device\n2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored"
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