Skip to main content
← All vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-43447

iavf: fix PTP use-after-free during reset

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iavf: fix PTP use-after-free during reset Commit 7c01dbfc8a1c5f ("iavf: periodically cache PHC time") introduced a worker to cache PHC time, but failed to stop it during reset or disable. This creates a race condition where `iavf_reset_task()` or `iavf_disable_vf()` free adapter resources (AQ) while the worker is still running. If the worker triggers `iavf_queue_ptp_cmd()` during teardown, it accesses freed memory/locks, leading to a crash. Fix this by calling `iavf_ptp_release()` before tearing down the adapter. This ensures `ptp_clock_unregister()` synchronously cancels the worker and cleans up the chardev before the backing resources are destroyed.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    6.15

References 3

git.kernel.org