CVE-2026-43447

iavf: fix PTP use-after-free during reset

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 8, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

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

iavf: fix PTP use-after-free during reset

Commit 7c01dbfc8a1c5f ("iavf: periodically cache PHC time") introduced a worker to cache PHC time, but failed to stop it during reset or disable.

This creates a race condition where `iavf_reset_task()` or `iavf_disable_vf()` free adapter resources (AQ) while the worker is still running. If the worker triggers `iavf_queue_ptp_cmd()` during teardown, it accesses freed memory/locks, leading to a crash.

Fix this by calling `iavf_ptp_release()` before tearing down the adapter. This ensures `ptp_clock_unregister()` synchronously cancels the worker and cleans up the chardev before the backing resources are destroyed.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7c01dbfc8a1c5f8b8e4a7907ab06db1449d478d0 to before 1b034f2429ce6b45ce74dc266175d277acafc5c4Affected
  • 7c01dbfc8a1c5f8b8e4a7907ab06db1449d478d0 to before 90cc8b2add29b57288025b51c70bc647e7cccb12Affected
  • 7c01dbfc8a1c5f8b8e4a7907ab06db1449d478d0 to before efc54fb13d79117a825fef17364315a58682c7ecAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.18.19 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.9 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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