CVE-2024-35891: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: micrel: Fix potential null pointer dereference In lan8814_get_sig_rx() and lan8814_get_sig_tx() ptp_parse_header() may return NULL as ptp_header due to abnormal packet type or corrupted packet. Fix this bug by adding ptp_header check. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.18, before 6.1.85 (fixed in 6.1.85); from 6.2, before 6.6.26 (fixed in 6.6.26); from 6.7, before 6.8.5 (fixed in 6.8.5); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-05-19. Last modified 2026-08-04.