CVE-2026-31736 (GCVE-0-2026-31736)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 14:14 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:14
VLAI
Title
net: ethernet: mtk_ppe: avoid NULL deref when gmac0 is disabled
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: mtk_ppe: avoid NULL deref when gmac0 is disabled If the gmac0 is disabled, the precheck for a valid ingress device will cause a NULL pointer deref and crash the system. This happens because eth->netdev[0] will be NULL but the code will directly try to access netdev_ops. Instead of just checking for the first net_device, it must be checked if any of the mtk_eth net_devices is matching the netdev_ops of the ingress device.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025 , < 0b832aad33e6f160fda310f0306a6483d85e9d6e (git)
Affected: 73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025 , < 5dff799c677152dde963c3917bacd9127b03e145 (git)
Affected: 73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025 , < 7b2380f0a0e374010c1a4a13203511b9dee5b166 (git)
Affected: 73cfd947dbdb25ef9863ac49c4596a7d53ad4025 , < 976ff48c2ac6e6b25b01428c9d7997bcd0fb2949 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.81 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.22 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.12 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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