CVE-2024-26942 net: phy: qcom: at803x: fix kernel panic with at8031_probe

2024-05-0105:17:56

Linux

github.com

linux kernel

vulnerability resolved

at803x driver split

null dereference bug

at8031_probe

kernel panic fix

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

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

net: phy: qcom: at803x: fix kernel panic with at8031_probe

On reworking and splitting the at803x driver, in splitting function of
at803x PHYs it was added a NULL dereference bug where priv is referenced
before it’s actually allocated and then is tried to write to for the
is_1000basex and is_fiber variables in the case of at8031, writing on
the wrong address.

Fix this by correctly setting priv local variable only after
at803x_probe is called and actually allocates priv in the phydev struct.

CNA Affected

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    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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      "drivers/net/phy/qcom/at803x.c"
    ],
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