{"id":29163,"date":"2026-09-25T20:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-98008"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:32:01","slug":"cve-2026-98008","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-98008","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-98008 &#8211; In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: macb: fix NULL p"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>net: macb: fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind with fixed-link<\/p>\n<p>When the device tree describes a fixed-link and has no &#8220;mdio&#8221; child<br \/>\nnode, macb_mii_init() returns early without allocating the MDIO bus,<br \/>\nleaving bp-&gt;mii_bus as NULL.<\/p>\n<p>Two cleanup paths then dereference this NULL bus:<\/p>\n<p>1. On driver unbind, macb_remove() unconditionally calls<br \/>\n   mdiobus_unregister(bp-&gt;mii_bus), which oopses:<\/p>\n<p>  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000004a8<br \/>\n  pc : mdiobus_unregister+0x14\/0xa4<br \/>\n  lr : macb_remove+0x38\/0xa4<br \/>\n  Call trace:<br \/>\n   mdiobus_unregister+0x14\/0xa4 (P)<br \/>\n   macb_remove+0x38\/0xa4<br \/>\n   platform_remove+0x20\/0x30<br \/>\n   device_release_driver_internal+0x1c8\/0x224<br \/>\n   unbind_store+0xb4\/0xbc<\/p>\n<p>2. On the probe error path in macb_probe(), reached when<br \/>\n   macb_mii_init() has succeeded but a subsequent step fails, the<br \/>\n   err_out_unregister_mdio label runs the same unconditional cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>mdiobus_unregister() and mdiobus_free() do not guard against a NULL<br \/>\nbus, so guard the calls in both macb_remove() and the probe error<br \/>\npath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>net: macb: fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind with fixed-link<\/p>\n<p>When the device tree describes a fixed-link and has no &#8220;mdio&#8221; ch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29163","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/29163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/vuln"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}