CVE-2026-99200
kernel: net: hisilicon: hisi_femac: Move setting of netops to fix crash
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 28, 2026
Updated · October 29, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's HiSilicon Fast Ethernet MAC (hisi_femac) network driver. This flaw can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) due to a system crash during device probing. When initializing the network interface, the driver attempts to access network device operations before they are configured, triggering an invalid memory access (NULL pointer dereference) on systems configured with network traffic shaping.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference