{"id":"CVE-2025-21750","summary":"wifi: brcmfmac: Check the return value of of_property_read_string_index()","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: Check the return value of of_property_read_string_index()\n\nSomewhen between 6.10 and 6.11 the driver started to crash on my\nMacBookPro14,3. The property doesn't exist and 'tmp' remains\nuninitialized, so we pass a random pointer to devm_kstrdup().\n\nThe crash I am getting looks like this:\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f033c669379\nPF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\nPF: error_code(0x0001) - permissions violation\nPGD 8000000101341067 P4D 8000000101341067 PUD 101340067 PMD 1013bb067 PTE 800000010aee9025\nOops: Oops: 0001 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 827 Comm: (udev-worker) Not tainted 6.11.8-gentoo #1\nHardware name: Apple Inc. MacBookPro14,3/Mac-551B86E5744E2388, BIOS 529.140.2.0.0 06/23/2024\nRIP: 0010:strlen+0x4/0x30\nCode: f7 75 ec 31 c0 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa \u003c80\u003e 3f 00 74 14 48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 c3 cc\nRSP: 0018:ffffb4aac0683ad8 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: 00000000ffffffea RBX: 00007f033c669379 RCX: 0000000000000001\nRDX: 0000000000000cc0 RSI: 00007f033c669379 RDI: 00007f033c669379\nRBP: 00000000ffffffea R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000c0ba916a\nR10: ffffffffffffffff R11: ffffffffb61ea260 R12: ffff91f7815b50c8\nR13: 0000000000000cc0 R14: ffff91fafefffe30 R15: ffffb4aac0683b30\nFS:  00007f033ccbe8c0(0000) GS:ffff91faeed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f033c669379 CR3: 0000000107b1e004 CR4: 00000000003706f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x23/0x70\n ? page_fault_oops+0x149/0x4c0\n ? raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0xe/0x20\n ? sched_balance_newidle+0x22b/0x3c0\n ? update_load_avg+0x78/0x770\n ? exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x150\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n ? __pfx_pci_conf1_write+0x10/0x10\n ? strlen+0x4/0x30\n devm_kstrdup+0x25/0x70\n brcmf_of_probe+0x273/0x350 [brcmfmac]","modified":"2026-04-02T12:45:12.406645Z","published":"2025-02-27T02:12:21.155Z","related":["ALSA-2025:20095","SUSE-SU-2025:01600-1","SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1","SUSE-SU-2025:1177-1","SUSE-SU-2025:1178-1","SUSE-SU-2025:1180-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20190-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20192-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20260-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20270-1","USN-7521-2"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21750.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/082d9e263af8de68f0c34f67b251818205160f6e"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ef2ea1429684d5cef207519bdf6ce45e50e8ac5"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af525a8b2ab85291617e79a5bb18bcdcb529e80c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb8e35e33e79eb8e44396adbc8cb6c8c5f16b731"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9480e9f2d10135476101619bcbd1c49c15d595f"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21750.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21750"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"29e354ebeeecaee979e6fe22cd6272682d7552c9"},{"fixed":"af525a8b2ab85291617e79a5bb18bcdcb529e80c"},{"fixed":"c9480e9f2d10135476101619bcbd1c49c15d595f"},{"fixed":"7ef2ea1429684d5cef207519bdf6ce45e50e8ac5"},{"fixed":"bb8e35e33e79eb8e44396adbc8cb6c8c5f16b731"},{"fixed":"082d9e263af8de68f0c34f67b251818205160f6e"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21750.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}