net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 54% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux