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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-26942

CVE-2024-26942

Description

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.

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  • Linux/Kernel4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >6.8,<6.8.3
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.8
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.8.0, < 6.8.3

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