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GHSA-72VM-9GWV-CWMM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-28 09:31 – Updated: 2026-08-29 09:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: emac: Fix NULL pointer dereference in emac_probe

Move devm_request_irq() after devm_platform_ioremap_resource() so that dev->emacp is mapped before the interrupt handler can fire. An early interrupt hitting emac_irq() would dereference the NULL dev->emacp and crash.

Also remove redundant error message. devm_platform_ioremap_resource() already returns an error message with dev_err_probe().

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-80614 (GCVE-0-2026-80614)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:48 – Updated: 2026-08-29 06:21

Title

net: emac: Fix NULL pointer dereference in emac_probe

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: emac: Fix NULL pointer dereference in emac_probe Move devm_request_irq() after devm_platform_ioremap_resource() so that dev->emacp is mapped before the interrupt handler can fire. An early interrupt hitting emac_irq() would dereference the NULL dev->emacp and crash. Also remove redundant error message. devm_platform_ioremap_resource() already returns an error message with dev_err_probe().

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a103cdb0681e7185d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44068b6863fbda78f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f623d38fe6c4e8c40…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: dcc34ef7c83473222027f475014a2bf8ab798372 , < a103cdb0681e7185d1b0a12ce6a7c5416c208ccd (git) Affected: dcc34ef7c83473222027f475014a2bf8ab798372 , < 44068b6863fbda78fc810921ddf61642c377b3ca (git) Affected: dcc34ef7c83473222027f475014a2bf8ab798372 , < f623d38fe6c4e8c40b23f42cc6fe6963fa49997b (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.12 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-72VM-9GWV-CWMM

CVE-2026-80614 (GCVE-0-2026-80614)

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