CVE-2024-50023

net: phy: Remove LED entry from LEDs list on unregister

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

net: phy: Remove LED entry from LEDs list on unregister

Commit c938ab4da0eb ("net: phy: Manual remove LEDs to ensure correct ordering") correctly fixed a problem with using devm_ but missed removing the LED entry from the LEDs list.

This cause kernel panic on specific scenario where the port for the PHY is torn down and up and the kmod for the PHY is removed.

On setting the port down the first time, the assosiacted LEDs are correctly unregistered. The associated kmod for the PHY is now removed. The kmod is now added again and the port is now put up, the associated LED are registered again. On putting the port down again for the second time after these step, the LED list now have 4 elements. With the first 2 already unregistered previously and the 2 new one registered again.

This cause a kernel panic as the first 2 element should have been removed.

Fix this by correctly removing the element when LED is unregistered.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c938ab4da0eb1620ae3243b0b24c572ddfc318fc to before 143ffa7878e2d9d9c3836ee8304ce4930f7852a3Affected
  • c938ab4da0eb1620ae3243b0b24c572ddfc318fc to before fba363f4d244269a0ba7abb8df953a244c6749afAffected
  • c938ab4da0eb1620ae3243b0b24c572ddfc318fc to before f50b5d74c68e551667e265123659b187a30fe3a5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.57 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.4 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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