Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-52971

Linux Linux

net: ena: PHC: Fix potential use-after-free in get_timestamp

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ena: PHC: Fix potential use-after-free in get_timestamp Move the phc->active check and resp pointer assignment to after acquiring the spinlock. Previously, phc->active was checked without holding the lock, and resp was cached from ena_dev->phc.virt_addr before the lock was acquired. If ena_com_phc_destroy() runs between the lockless active check and the lock acquisition, it sets active=false, releases the lock, frees the DMA memory, and sets virt_addr=NULL. The get_timestamp path would then read a NULL virt_addr and dereference it. With both the active check and the pointer read under the lock, destroy cannot free the memory while get_timestamp is using it.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.17 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e0ea34158ee8c4f7536cd781010339ff28c0d24c ≤ v < 95e8ae9af2a61b4e72f5c585bf4c7d8aaf2a2c98 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e0ea34158ee8c4f7536cd781010339ff28c0d24c ≤ v < ca9ed40f28949353911dcb524ff8fff2f3409c97 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux e0ea34158ee8c4f7536cd781010339ff28c0d24c ≤ v < e42c755582f0960e684298762f0ab927b3778376 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-06-24
Last updated
2026-10-19
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.1%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
0.9%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362
    Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')