CVE-2025-37851 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 83.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 9
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: omapfb: Add 'plane' value check
Function dispc_ovl_setup is not intended to work with the value OMAP_DSS_WB
of the enum parameter plane.
The value of this parameter is initialized in dss_init_overlays and in the
current state of the code it cannot take this value so it's not a real
problem.
For the purposes of defensive coding it wouldn't be superfluous to check
the parameter value, because some functions down the cal…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages8 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0