CVE-2025-38726 (GCVE-0-2025-38726)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-04 15:33 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:33
VLAI
Title
net: ftgmac100: fix potential NULL pointer access in ftgmac100_phy_disconnect
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ftgmac100: fix potential NULL pointer access in ftgmac100_phy_disconnect After the call to phy_disconnect() netdev->phydev is reset to NULL. So fixed_phy_unregister() would be called with a NULL pointer as argument. Therefore cache the phy_device before this call.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e24a6c874601efb3de6e535895dd8e4f56fa98f1 , < ae59ec969c07c73f0610f8bd7e648f01e798d222 (git)
Affected: e24a6c874601efb3de6e535895dd8e4f56fa98f1 , < 44bcd397ad9cd1a6b25fabb7f5edbee4fb0cfc2e (git)
Affected: e24a6c874601efb3de6e535895dd8e4f56fa98f1 , < 9ad90dd34b4e8e5be1e45a4559f4de0f14e53af2 (git)
Affected: e24a6c874601efb3de6e535895dd8e4f56fa98f1 , < e88fbc30dda1cb7438515303704ceddb3ade4ecd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.43 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.11 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.2 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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