VeriPHY: Physical Layer Signal Authentication for Wireless Communication in 5G Environments

Physical layer authentication PLA uses inherent characteristics of the communication medium to provide secure and efficient authentication in wireless networks, bypassing the need for traditional cryptographic methods. With advancements in deep learning, PLA has become a widely adopted technique...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-47273

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: dwc3-meson-g12a: fix usb2 PHY glue init when phy0 is disabled When only PHY1 is used fo...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-37945

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - net: phy: allow MDIO bus PM ops to start/stop state machine for phylink-controlled PHY DSA has 2 kinds of drivers: 1. Those who call dsaswitchsuspend and...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-53204

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: realtek: usb: fix NULL deref in rtkusb3phyprobe In rtkusb3phyprobe devmkzalloc may retu...

net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping

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Important: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: don't drop extentmap for free space inode on write error CVE-2024-26726 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Verify event formats that have "%p.." CVE-2025-37938 In t...

net: phy: leds: fix memory leak

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CovertAuth: Joint Covert Communication and Authentication in MmWave Systems

Beam alignment BA is a crucial process in millimeter-wave mmWave communications, enabling precise directional transmission and efficient link establishment. However, due to characteristics like omnidirectional exposure and the broadcast nature of the BA phase, it is particularly vulnerable to...

A Survey on Artificial Noise for Physical Layer Security: Opportunities, Technologies, Guidelines, Advances, and Trends

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise AN, as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable of utilizing the spatial degree-of-freedom of channels to...

Physical Layer Challenge-Response Authentication between Ambient Backscatter Devices

Ambient backscatter communication AmBC has become an integral part of ubiquitous Internet of Things IoT applications due to its energy-harvesting capabilities and ultra-low-power consumption. However, the open wireless environment exposes AmBC systems to various attacks, and existing authenticati...

Movable Antennas Meet Low-Altitude Wireless Networks: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Future Directions

With the rapid development of low-altitude applications, there is an increasing demand for low-altitude wireless networks LAWNs to simultaneously achieve high-rate communication, precise sensing, and reliable control in the low-altitude airspace. In this paper, we first present a typical system...

The vulnerability of the dp83822_config_intr() function in the Linux kernel’s Physical Layer support driver allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the dp83822configintr function in the Linux kernel’s Physical Layer support driver is related to pointer manipulation. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

CVE-2021-1971

Possible assertion due to lack of physical layer state validation in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking...

Enhanced Multiuser CSI-Based Physical Layer Authentication Based on Information Reconciliation

This paper presents a physical layer authentication PLA technique using information reconciliation in multiuser communication systems. A cost-effective solution for low-end Internet of Things networks can be provided by PLA. In this work, we develop an information reconciliation scheme using Pola...

kernel: net: phy: Remove LED entry from LEDs list on unregister

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: Remove LED entry from LEDs list on unregister Commit c938ab4da0eb "net: phy: Manual remove LEDs to ensure correct ordering" correctly fixed a problem with using devm but missed removing the LED entry from the LEDs list...

Integrating Communication, Sensing, and Security: Progress and Prospects of PLS in ISAC Systems

The sixth generation of wireless networks defined several key performance indicators KPIs for assessing its networks, mainly in terms of reliability, coverage, and sensing. In this regard, remarkable attention has been paid recently to the integrated sensing and communication ISAC paradigm as an...

SUSE CVE-2023-52985

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: dts: imx8mm-verdin: Do not power down eth-phy Currently if suspending using either freeze or memory state, the fec driver tries to power down the phy which leads to crash of the kernel and non-responsible kernel with the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52985

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: dts: imx8mm-verdin: Do not power down eth-phy Currently if suspending using either freeze or memory state, the fec driver tries to power down the phy which leads to crash of the kernel and non-responsible kernel with the...

The vulnerability of the tusb1210_remove_charger_detect() function in the drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.c file of the Linux kernel’s PHY driver allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the tusb1210removechargerdetect function in the drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.c file of the Linux kernel’s PHY driver is related to the execution of operations outside of the buffer in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

The vulnerability of the at8031_parse_dt() function in the drivers/net/phy/at803x.c module of the Linux physical layer network support driver allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the at8031parsedt function in the drivers/net/phy/at803x.c module of the Linux PHY driver for the Linux operating system is related to synchronization errors when using shared resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...