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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jun 24, 2026· Updated Jul 14, 2026

CVE-2026-52971

CVE-2026-52971

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.

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