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CVE-2025-37850: Linux kernel · pwm: mediatek: Prevent divide-by-zero in pwm_mediatek_config()

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.5 Medium.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 19:22 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
5.5Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 9 May 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 13 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

A fix has been implemented in the Linux kernel source to explicitly check for zero before performing the division, preventing the divide-by-zero error. Users should apply the official kernel update containing this fix. Since this is a kernel-level issue, updating to a patched kernel version is the recommended remediation.

Description

CVE-2025-37850 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Mediatek PWM driver where a divide-by-zero error can occur in the pwm_mediatek_config() function under specific kernel configuration conditions. This happens when CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST is enabled and CONFIG_HAVE_CLK is disabled, causing clk_get_rate() to return zero and leading to a divide-by-zero operation. The issue is mostly theoretical due to configuration dependencies but has been addressed to prevent potential runtime errors and related warnings during compilation.

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