CVE-2025-39937

EUVD-2025-32403
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: rfkill: gpio: Fix crash due to dereferencering uninitialized pointer

Since commit 7d5e9737efda ("net: rfkill: gpio: get the name and type from
device property") rfkill_find_type() gets called with the possibly
uninitialized "const char *type_name;" local variable.

On x86 systems when rfkill-gpio binds to a "BCM4752" or "LNV4752"
acpi_device, the rfkill->type is set based on the ACPI acpi_device_id:

        rfkill->type = (unsigned)id->driver_data;

and there is no "type" property so device_property_read_string() will fail
and leave type_name uninitialized, leading to a potential crash.

rfkill_find_type() does accept a NULL pointer, fix the potential crash
by initializing type_name to NULL.

Note likely sofar this has not been caught because:

1. Not many x86 machines actually have a "BCM4752"/"LNV4752" acpi_device
2. The stack happened to contain NULL where type_name is stored
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 12%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
4.6 ≤
𝑥
< 5.4.300
linuxlinux_kernel
5.5 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.245
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.194
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.1.154
linuxlinux_kernel
6.2 ≤
𝑥
< 6.6.108
linuxlinux_kernel
6.7 ≤
𝑥
< 6.12.49
linuxlinux_kernel
6.13 ≤
𝑥
< 6.16.9
linuxlinux_kernel
6.17:rc1
linuxlinux_kernel
6.17:rc2
linuxlinux_kernel
6.17:rc3
linuxlinux_kernel
6.17:rc4
linuxlinux_kernel
6.17:rc5
linuxlinux_kernel
6.17:rc6
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions