CVE-2026-43173 (GCVE-0-2026-43173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-06-01 16:15
VLAI
Title
net: ethernet: xscale: Check for PTP support properly
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: xscale: Check for PTP support properly In ixp4xx_get_ts_info() ixp46x_ptp_find() is called unconditionally despite this feature only existing on ixp46x, leading to the following splat from tcpdump: root@OpenWrt:~# tcpdump -vv -X -i eth0 (...) Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000238 when read (...) Call trace: ptp_clock_index from ixp46x_ptp_find+0x1c/0x38 ixp46x_ptp_find from ixp4xx_get_ts_info+0x4c/0x64 ixp4xx_get_ts_info from __ethtool_get_ts_info+0x90/0x108 __ethtool_get_ts_info from __dev_ethtool+0xa00/0x2648 __dev_ethtool from dev_ethtool+0x160/0x234 dev_ethtool from dev_ioctl+0x2cc/0x460 dev_ioctl from sock_ioctl+0x1ec/0x524 sock_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x51c/0xa94 sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x44 (...) Segmentation fault Check for ixp46x in ixp46x_ptp_find() before trying to set up PTP to avoid this. To avoid altering the returned error code from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set() which before this patch was -EOPNOTSUPP, we return -EOPNOTSUPP from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set() if ixp46x_ptp_find() fails no matter the error code. The helper function ixp46x_ptp_find() helper returns -ENODEV.
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: 9055a2f591629b952910503e72ddae1371c44bf1 , < 322437972f0a712767f6920ad34aba25f2e9b942 (git)
Affected: 9055a2f591629b952910503e72ddae1371c44bf1 , < 21d1e80d0d6e7d0c3cd8b1e001ed1fa92fb9f3f5 (git)
Affected: 9055a2f591629b952910503e72ddae1371c44bf1 , < 2d74412dfd3621552a394d55cc3dd26a7cbf608e (git)
Affected: 9055a2f591629b952910503e72ddae1371c44bf1 , < cbecebd35909f6cd0f6fb773f0fb73da99e02f8c (git)
Affected: 9055a2f591629b952910503e72ddae1371c44bf1 , < 594163ea88a03bdb412063af50fc7177ef3cbeae (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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