mdio

The Linux kernel patch that closed CVE-2025-38111 — a bounds‑check defect in net/mdiobus — is small in code but large in operational impact: it removes a user‑supplied MDIO address from an unchecked ioctl path that could be used to read or write beyond the kernel’s mdiobus statistics array, and...

The Linux kernel patch that closed a net/mdiobus flaw assigned CVE-2025-38110 has drawn renewed attention to how large vendors — Microsoft included — publish product-level attestations for open-source components and what those attestations actually mean for operators running other...