Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-99196

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - net: au1000: move setting of netops to fix crash au1000probe calls au1000miiprobe, which connects the PHY, before dev-netdevops is assigned. phyattachdirect -...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

A security vulnerability exists in Linux kernel version 7.2. It arises because au1000probe connects to the PHY before allocating dev-netdevops; as a result, phyattachdirect reads dev-netdevops via netdevneedopslock. When CONFIGNETSHAPER is enabled, this leads to a null pointer dereference and a...