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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 19, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference

CVE-2024-35891

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.

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