CVE-2024-35945 (GCVE-0-2024-35945)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-19 10:10 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net: phy: phy_device: Prevent nullptr exceptions on ISR
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phy: phy_device: Prevent nullptr exceptions on ISR
If phydev->irq is set unconditionally, check
for valid interrupt handler or fall back to polling mode to prevent
nullptr exceptions in interrupt service routine.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-20 17:11 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
49644e68f472c6480e015253fa4d7448c6cfa2aa , < 7a71f61ebf95cedd3f245db6da397822971d8db5
(git)
Affected: 49644e68f472c6480e015253fa4d7448c6cfa2aa , < 3419ee39e3d3162ab2ec9942bb537613ed5b6311 (git) Affected: 49644e68f472c6480e015253fa4d7448c6cfa2aa , < 61c81872815f46006982bb80460c0c80a949b35b (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.3 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.27 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8.6 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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