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Linux Kernel EUVDEUVD-2026-39323

| CVE-2026-53232 HIGH
2026-06-25 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 GHSA-grrc-m4h5-r55j
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Vendor (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) PRIMARY
8.8 HIGH
AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
4.7 MEDIUM

Trigger is a local probe-failure race plus an SFP hardware event (AV:L, AC:H, PR:L); realistic impact is a kernel crash/DoS, so A:H with no confirmed confidentiality or integrity impact.

3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Red Hat
5.5 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67).

CVSS VectorVendor: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jun 28, 2026 - 09:40 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jun 28, 2026 - 08:22 NVD
8.8 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jun 25, 2026 - 10:32 EUVD
CVE Published
Jun 25, 2026 - 09:16 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jun 25, 2026 - 09:16 cve.org
HIGH 8.8

DescriptionCVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: phy: clean the sfp upstream if phy probing fails

Sashiko reported that we don't call sfp_bus_del_upstream() in the probe failure path, so let's add it, otherwise the sfp-bus is left with a dangling 'upstream' field, that may be used later on during SFP events.

This issue existed before the generic phylib sfp support, back when drivers were calling phy_sfp_probe themselves.

AnalysisAI

Use of a dangling pointer in the Linux kernel's phylib/SFP networking subsystem occurs when PHY probing fails but sfp_bus_del_upstream() is never called, leaving the sfp-bus 'upstream' field pointing at freed/torn-down state that can be dereferenced during a later SFP hot-plug event. Affected systems are Linux hosts and appliances using PHY drivers with SFP cage support across kernels from 5.5 up to the fix in commit 48774e87. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, the EPSS score is very low (0.16%, 5th percentile), and the issue is not in CISA KEV.

Technical ContextAI

The flaw lives in the kernel networking PHY library (drivers/net/phy) and its SFP bus glue (sfp-bus). When a network device with an SFP cage is brought up, the PHY driver registers itself as the 'upstream' consumer of the sfp-bus via sfp_bus_add_upstream(); on teardown it must call sfp_bus_del_upstream() to detach. In the phy_probe failure path this detach was missing, so the sfp-bus retained a stale 'upstream' back-reference. A subsequent SFP module event (insertion/removal/link change) then walks that dangling reference - a classic use-after-free / dangling-pointer condition (closest CWE class CWE-416 Use After Free / CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference; the feed lists CWE as N/A). The bug predates generic phylib SFP support and also affected drivers that called phy_sfp_probe() directly.

RemediationAI

Patch available per vendor advisory: upstream fix is kernel commit 48774e87bbaa0056819d4b52301e4692e50e3252 (https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48774e87bbaa0056819d4b52301e4692e50e3252), which adds the missing sfp_bus_del_upstream() call in the phy probe failure path; update to the stable release that incorporates this commit (no single tagged release number was provided in the input, so confirm the exact backported version against your distribution's kernel changelog). The released patched version is identified by commit rather than by a vendor-tagged release here, so confirm the build with your distro. There is no clean runtime workaround for a kernel memory-safety bug, but because the trigger requires a PHY probe failure plus an SFP event, exposure can be reduced by ensuring correct/known-good SFP modules and driver firmware, restricting physical and administrative access to systems with SFP cages, and avoiding loading/reloading affected PHY drivers on untrusted hardware - these reduce the chance of hitting the probe-failure path but do not eliminate the underlying defect.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0 Affected

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