CVE-2026-43173
MEDIUM SEVERITYCVSS Score & Metrics
Base Score
5.5 / 10
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: xscale: Check for PTP support properly
In ixp4xx_get_ts_info() ixp46x_ptp_find() is called
unconditionally despite this feature only existing on
ixp46x, leading to the following splat from tcpdump:
root@OpenWrt:~# tcpdump -vv -X -i eth0
(...)
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000238 when read
(...)
Call trace:
ptp_clock_index from ixp46x_ptp_find+0x1c/0x38
ixp46x_ptp_find from ixp4xx_get_ts_info+0x4c/0x64
ixp4xx_get_ts_info from __ethtool_get_ts_info+0x90/0x108
__ethtool_get_ts_info from __dev_ethtool+0xa00/0x2648
__dev_ethtool from dev_ethtool+0x160/0x234
dev_ethtool from dev_ioctl+0x2cc/0x460
dev_ioctl from sock_ioctl+0x1ec/0x524
sock_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x51c/0xa94
sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x44
(...)
Segmentation fault
Check for ixp46x in ixp46x_ptp_find() before trying to set up
PTP to avoid this.
To avoid altering the returned error code from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set()
which before this patch was -EOPNOTSUPP, we return -EOPNOTSUPP
from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set() if ixp46x_ptp_find() fails no matter
the error code. The helper function ixp46x_ptp_find() helper
returns -ENODEV.
net: ethernet: xscale: Check for PTP support properly
In ixp4xx_get_ts_info() ixp46x_ptp_find() is called
unconditionally despite this feature only existing on
ixp46x, leading to the following splat from tcpdump:
root@OpenWrt:~# tcpdump -vv -X -i eth0
(...)
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000238 when read
(...)
Call trace:
ptp_clock_index from ixp46x_ptp_find+0x1c/0x38
ixp46x_ptp_find from ixp4xx_get_ts_info+0x4c/0x64
ixp4xx_get_ts_info from __ethtool_get_ts_info+0x90/0x108
__ethtool_get_ts_info from __dev_ethtool+0xa00/0x2648
__dev_ethtool from dev_ethtool+0x160/0x234
dev_ethtool from dev_ioctl+0x2cc/0x460
dev_ioctl from sock_ioctl+0x1ec/0x524
sock_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x51c/0xa94
sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x44
(...)
Segmentation fault
Check for ixp46x in ixp46x_ptp_find() before trying to set up
PTP to avoid this.
To avoid altering the returned error code from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set()
which before this patch was -EOPNOTSUPP, we return -EOPNOTSUPP
from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set() if ixp46x_ptp_find() fails no matter
the error code. The helper function ixp46x_ptp_find() helper
returns -ENODEV.
Vulnerability Details
Published Date
Last Modified
CWE ID
CWE-476
Source
NVD
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
External References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/144dde3146985b25fa84d4e4b7c3d11e0f5fc5a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21d1e80d0d6e7d0c3cd8b1e001ed1fa92fb9f3f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d74412dfd3621552a394d55cc3dd26a7cbf608e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/322437972f0a712767f6920ad34aba25f2e9b942
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5195b10c34b8993194ad12ad7d8f54d861be084b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/594163ea88a03bdb412063af50fc7177ef3cbeae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbecebd35909f6cd0f6fb773f0fb73da99e02f8c
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