CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-52971
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ena: PHC: Fix potential use-after-free in get_timestamp
Move the phc->active check and resp pointer assignment to after
acquiring the spinlock. Previously, phc->active was checked without
holding the lock, and resp was cached from ena_dev->phc.virt_addr
before the lock was acquired.
If ena_com_phc_destroy() runs between the lockless active check and
the lock acquisition, it sets active=false, releases the lock, frees
the DMA memory, and sets virt_addr=NULL. The get_timestamp path would
then read a NULL virt_addr and dereference it.
With both the active check and the pointer read under the lock,
destroy cannot free the memory while get_timestamp is using it.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.17 < 6.18.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.10)
• linux linux kernel 7.1