CVE-2026-53232 (GCVE-0-2026-53232)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 08:39 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:34
VLAI
Title
net: phy: clean the sfp upstream if phy probing fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: clean the sfp upstream if phy probing fails Sashiko reported that we don't call sfp_bus_del_upstream() in the probe failure path, so let's add it, otherwise the sfp-bus is left with a dangling 'upstream' field, that may be used later on during SFP events. This issue existed before the generic phylib sfp support, back when drivers were calling phy_sfp_probe themselves.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 298e54fa810e027f1b0800d789eb862592721f08 , < 12fb84dc4dc8eb47ebe2b27f7de6255a4a205e1b (git)
Affected: 298e54fa810e027f1b0800d789eb862592721f08 , < 9326b654f90a09eadeb796c82801a5609d57f0c8 (git)
Affected: 298e54fa810e027f1b0800d789eb862592721f08 , < 3a254779c169954fe23328a1db51f67be374f913 (git)
Affected: 298e54fa810e027f1b0800d789eb862592721f08 , < 0b27701ce93161d7bbf4b25fa20ca59963b0e20c (git)
Affected: 298e54fa810e027f1b0800d789eb862592721f08 , < 48774e87bbaa0056819d4b52301e4692e50e3252 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.143 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.94 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.36 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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