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GHSA-XM7V-QXRM-68JG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-12 00:31 – Updated: 2025-03-12 00:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR9331 PHY

Latest kernel will explode on the PHY interrupt config, since it depends now on allocated priv. So, run probe to allocate priv to fix it.

ar9331_switch ethernet.1:10 lan0 (uninitialized): PHY [!ahb!ethernet@1a000000!mdio!switch@10:00] driver [Qualcomm Atheros AR9331 built-in PHY] (irq=13) CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000a, epc == 8050e8a8, ra == 80504b34 ... Call Trace: [<8050e8a8>] at803x_config_intr+0x5c/0xd0 [<80504b34>] phy_request_interrupt+0xa8/0xd0 [<8050289c>] phylink_bringup_phy+0x2d8/0x3ac [<80502b68>] phylink_fwnode_phy_connect+0x118/0x130 [<8074d8ec>] dsa_slave_create+0x270/0x420 [<80743b04>] dsa_port_setup+0x12c/0x148 [<8074580c>] dsa_register_switch+0xaf0/0xcc0 [<80511344>] ar9331_sw_probe+0x370/0x388 [<8050cb78>] mdio_probe+0x44/0x70 [<804df300>] really_probe+0x200/0x424 [<804df7b4>] __driver_probe_device+0x290/0x298 [<804df810>] driver_probe_device+0x54/0xe4 [<804dfd50>] __device_attach_driver+0xe4/0x130 [<804dcb00>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb4/0xd8 [<804dfac4>] __device_attach+0x104/0x1a4 [<804ddd24>] bus_probe_device+0x48/0xc4 [<804deb44>] deferred_probe_work_func+0xf0/0x10c [<800a0ffc>] process_one_work+0x314/0x4d4 [<800a17fc>] worker_thread+0x2a4/0x354 [<800a9a54>] kthread+0x134/0x13c [<8006306c>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c

Same Issue would affect some other PHYs (QCA8081, QCA9561), so fix it too.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "aliases": [
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  "published": "2025-03-12T00:31:49Z",
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CVE-2022-49692 (GCVE-0-2022-49692)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:24 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:04

Title

net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR9331 PHY

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR9331 PHY Latest kernel will explode on the PHY interrupt config, since it depends now on allocated priv. So, run probe to allocate priv to fix it. ar9331_switch ethernet.1:10 lan0 (uninitialized): PHY [!ahb!ethernet@1a000000!mdio!switch@10:00] driver [Qualcomm Atheros AR9331 built-in PHY] (irq=13) CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000a, epc == 8050e8a8, ra == 80504b34 ... Call Trace: [<8050e8a8>] at803x_config_intr+0x5c/0xd0 [<80504b34>] phy_request_interrupt+0xa8/0xd0 [<8050289c>] phylink_bringup_phy+0x2d8/0x3ac [<80502b68>] phylink_fwnode_phy_connect+0x118/0x130 [<8074d8ec>] dsa_slave_create+0x270/0x420 [<80743b04>] dsa_port_setup+0x12c/0x148 [<8074580c>] dsa_register_switch+0xaf0/0xcc0 [<80511344>] ar9331_sw_probe+0x370/0x388 [<8050cb78>] mdio_probe+0x44/0x70 [<804df300>] really_probe+0x200/0x424 [<804df7b4>] __driver_probe_device+0x290/0x298 [<804df810>] driver_probe_device+0x54/0xe4 [<804dfd50>] __device_attach_driver+0xe4/0x130 [<804dcb00>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb4/0xd8 [<804dfac4>] __device_attach+0x104/0x1a4 [<804ddd24>] bus_probe_device+0x48/0xc4 [<804deb44>] deferred_probe_work_func+0xf0/0x10c [<800a0ffc>] process_one_work+0x314/0x4d4 [<800a17fc>] worker_thread+0x2a4/0x354 [<800a9a54>] kthread+0x134/0x13c [<8006306c>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c Same Issue would affect some other PHYs (QCA8081, QCA9561), so fix it too.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

Linux

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66fa352215e8455ba…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9926de7315be3d606…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3265f421887847db9ae2c01a00645e33608556d8 , < 66fa352215e8455ba2e5f33793535795bd3e36ca (git) Affected: 3265f421887847db9ae2c01a00645e33608556d8 , < 9926de7315be3d606cc011a305ad9adb9e8e14c9 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 5.18.8 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2022-49692 (GCVE-0-2022-49692)

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