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CVE-2022-49692

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

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 26, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE not specified