{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37897 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-37897 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-37897 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-37897 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37897 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37897/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37897/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-37897","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37897/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-37897","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-37897","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37897","GHSA-x6xg-mjxq-9qw2","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-37897","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-37897","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37897"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel WiFi driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A faulty assertion in the PureLifi WiFi driver causes a kernel warning and potential crash when a device is disconnected or probe fails.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-617","name":"Reachable Assertion"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: plfxlc: Remove erroneous assert in plfxlc_mac_release\n\nplfxlc_mac_release() asserts that mac-\u003elock is held. This assertion is\nincorrect, because even if it was possible, it would not be the valid\nbehaviour. The function is used when probe fails or after the device is\ndisconnected. In both cases mac-\u003elock can not be held as the driver is\nnot working with the device at the moment. All functions that use mac-\u003elock\nunlock it just after it was held. There is also no need to hold mac-\u003elock\nfor plfxlc_mac_release() itself, as mac data is not affected, except for\nmac-\u003eflags, which is modified atomically.\n\nThis bug leads to the following warning:\n================================================================\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 127 at drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c:106 plfxlc_mac_release+0x7d/0xa0\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 127 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.1.124-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024\nWorkqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event\nRIP: 0010:plfxlc_mac_release+0x7d/0xa0 drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c:106\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n probe+0x941/0xbd0 drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/usb.c:694\n usb_probe_interface+0x5c0/0xaf0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396\n really_probe+0x2ab/0xcb0 drivers/base/dd.c:639\n __driver_probe_device+0x1a2/0x3d0 drivers/base/dd.c:785\n driver_probe_device+0x50/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:815\n __device_attach_driver+0x2cf/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:943\n bus_for_each_drv+0x183/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429\n __device_attach+0x359/0x570 drivers/base/dd.c:1015\n bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489\n device_add+0xb48/0xfd0 drivers/base/core.c:3696\n usb_set_configuration+0x19dd/0x2020 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165\n usb_generic_driver_probe+0x84/0x140 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238\n usb_probe_device+0x130/0x260 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293\n really_probe+0x2ab/0xcb0 drivers/base/dd.c:639\n __driver_probe_device+0x1a2/0x3d0 drivers/base/dd.c:785\n driver_probe_device+0x50/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:815\n __device_attach_driver+0x2cf/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:943\n bus_for_each_drv+0x183/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429\n __device_attach+0x359/0x570 drivers/base/dd.c:1015\n bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489\n device_add+0xb48/0xfd0 drivers/base/core.c:3696\n usb_new_device+0xbdd/0x18f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2620\n hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5477 [inline]\n hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5617 [inline]\n port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5773 [inline]\n hub_event+0x2efe/0x5730 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5855\n process_one_work+0x8a9/0x11d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2292\n worker_thread+0xa47/0x1200 kernel/workqueue.c:2439\n kthread+0x28d/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:376\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n================================================================\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"wifi: plfxlc: Remove erroneous assert in plfxlc_mac_release","id":"CVE-2025-37897","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"powerpc64/ftrace: fix module loading without patchable function entries","id":"CVE-2025-37898"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"spi: spi-mem: Add fix to avoid divide error","id":"CVE-2025-37896"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-05-20","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument 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licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A faulty assertion in the PureLifi WiFi driver causes a kernel warning and potential crash when a device is disconnected or probe fails.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37897/"}