CVE-2025-22006 net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix NAPI registration sequence

What is CVE-2025-22006?

CVE-2025-22006 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix NAPI registration sequence

Registering the interrupts for TX or RX DMA Channels prior to registering their respective NAPI callbacks can result in a NULL pointer dereference. This is seen in practice as a random occurrence since it depends on the randomness associated with the generation of traffic by Linux and the reception of traffic from the wire.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22006?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22006?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2025-22006 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22006 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-22006, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22006, GHSA-c5f2-596r-9c4q, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22006.