CVE-2024-50097: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: don't save PTP state if PTP is unsupported Some platforms (such as i.MX25 and i.MX27) do not support PTP, so on these platforms fec_ptp_init() is not called and the related members in fep are not initialized. However, fec_ptp_save_state() is called unconditionally, which causes the kernel to panic. Therefore, add a condition so that fec_ptp_save_state() is not called if PTP is not supported.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.6.55, before 6.6.57 (fixed in 6.6.57); from 6.7, before 6.11.4 (fixed in 6.11.4); from 6.10.4, before 6.11 (fixed in 6.11); version 6.12 only

Published 2024-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.