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CVE-2026-53231

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy We don't have support for PHY-driver SFP cages with the genphy code. On top of that, it was found by sashiko that running sfp_bus_add_upstream() for genphy deadlocks, as for genphy the PHY probing runs under RTNL, which isn't the case for non-genphy drivers. This problem was reproduced, and does lead to a deadlock on RTNL. Before the blamed commit, the phy_
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:a4d17d8a0c88380a4c98090cf0901ed6e0447f009f856b264e9a178b8a4c0151
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:13aafa3674874c9177d0d4907722c0800c7a41168f25943894b12ec6b872e1aa · sha256:729c19c2f6336030… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"ef8d739eee6f85303cbecebc01eb72f063de74e0","status":"affected","version":"bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"5a0082ec20a05ef2378410323a5089a8f1786f4a","status":"affected","version":"bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095","versionType":"git"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:13aafa3674874c9177d0d4907722c0800c7a41168f25943894b12ec6b872e1aa · sha256:729c19c2f6336030… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"affected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"7.0"},{"lessThan":"7.0","status":"unaffected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*","status":"unaffected","version":"7.0.13","versionType":"semver"},{"lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","version":"7.1","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:13aafa3674874c9177d0d4907722c0800c7a41168f25943894b12ec6b872e1aa · sha256:729c19c2f6336030… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"ef8d739eee6f85303cbecebc01eb72f063de74e0","status":"affected","version":"bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"5a0082ec20a05ef2378410323a5089a8f1786f4a","status":"affected","version":"bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095","versionType":"git"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:13aafa3674874c9177d0d4907722c0800c7a41168f25943894b12ec6b872e1aa · sha256:729c19c2f6336030… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Source references

2 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a0082ec20a05ef2378410323a5089a8f1786f4a"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:13aafa3674874c9177d0d4907722c0800c7a41168f25943894b12ec6b872e1aa · sha256:729c19c2f6336030… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef8d739eee6f85303cbecebc01eb72f063de74e0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:13aafa3674874c9177d0d4907722c0800c7a41168f25943894b12ec6b872e1aa · sha256:729c19c2f6336030… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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