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CVE-2026-80991 (GCVE-0-2026-80991)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:42 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:28
VLAI
Title
net: ravb: serialize PTP clock teardown
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ravb: serialize PTP clock teardown ravb_ptp_interrupt() can race with ravb_ptp_stop() and pass the clock to ptp_clock_event() while ptp_clock_unregister() is freeing it. This can lead to a use-after-free. Use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() for lockless access to the clock pointer. Atomically detach it with xchg() before disabling PTP interrupts, then synchronize all IRQs which can invoke ravb_ptp_interrupt() before unregistering the detached clock. A handler which read the old pointer completes before the clock is unregistered, while later handlers read NULL and skip the event.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a0d2f20650e81407d8e51ad2cbdc492861c74e9c , < 695acb5534a9e366efb47b40c7487fc56488b09b (git)
Affected: a0d2f20650e81407d8e51ad2cbdc492861c74e9c , < 67a82e6f886beed0de8f8da08bb767e68fba952d (git)
Affected: a0d2f20650e81407d8e51ad2cbdc492861c74e9c , < 66b50c31419e7946e9aa325a468ad9b64c961a25 (git)
Affected: a0d2f20650e81407d8e51ad2cbdc492861c74e9c , < 1cb9663789c5b7a12fcd419fcca6d6254c398252 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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