CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-35891

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-05-19 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-05-19
Last modified
2026-08-04
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 6.1.85) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.26) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.5) • linux linux kernel 6.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References