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GHSA-FGCP-9269-XJJ7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-19 09:34 – Updated: 2024-12-30 18:30

Details

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

net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference

In lan8814_get_sig_rx() and lan8814_get_sig_tx() ptp_parse_header() may return NULL as ptp_header due to abnormal packet type or corrupted packet. Fix this bug by adding ptp_header check.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2024-35891 (GCVE-0-2024-35891)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-19 08:34 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:30

Title

net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference In lan8814_get_sig_rx() and lan8814_get_sig_tx() ptp_parse_header() may return NULL as ptp_header due to abnormal packet type or corrupted packet. Fix this bug by adding ptp_header check. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-06-17 17:38 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49767b0df276f12e3…
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Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.85 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.26 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8.5 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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