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"state": "PUBLISHED",
"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2026-05-01T14:12:56.010Z",
"datePublished": "2026-05-08T14:22:13.988Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:28:00.059Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niavf: fix PTP use-after-free during reset\n\nCommit 7c01dbfc8a1c5f (\"iavf: periodically cache PHC time\") introduced a\nworker to cache PHC time, but failed to stop it during reset or disable.\n\nThis creates a race condition where `iavf_reset_task()` or\n`iavf_disable_vf()` free adapter resources (AQ) while the worker is still\nrunning. If the worker triggers `iavf_queue_ptp_cmd()` during teardown, it\naccesses freed memory/locks, leading to a crash.\n\nFix this by calling `iavf_ptp_release()` before tearing down the adapter.\nThis ensures `ptp_clock_unregister()` synchronously cancels the worker and\ncleans up the chardev before the backing resources are destroyed."
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"value": "AV:L - The vulnerable reset/disable paths are reached through local netdevice/PTP control paths, not by processing remote packets. A local actor can trigger iavf reset via MTU/feature changes while the PTP worker or PTP clock access queues PHC reads.\nAC:L - The race can be driven repeatedly by triggering resets while the PTP aux worker runs periodically, and a privileged local actor can also issue concurrent PTP clock reads. Per kernel guidance, this use-after-free race is low complexity.\nPR:L - Reset-triggering netdevice operations require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device's network namespace, enforced through namespace-capable checks. Since iavf devices are not netns-immutable and may be delegated to a user-owned netns/container, this is low privileges rather than init-namespace root only.\nUI:N - No victim action is required once the attacker has local access and the iavf VF with PTP support is present. The attacker can initiate the reset/clock activity directly.\nS:U - The corruption occurs within the same kernel security authority as the vulnerable iavf driver. This is standard local kernel compromise/DoS, not a guest-to-host or IOMMU boundary crossing.\nC:H - The bug is a use-after-free involving freed adapter/Admin Queue resources and locks. Following kernel guidance, UAF memory corruption can provide high confidentiality impact through exploitable kernel memory access.\nI:H - The UAF can corrupt or reuse kernel objects/resources during teardown and can plausibly be exploited for control-flow or arbitrary write primitives. Kernel guidance treats use-after-free as high integrity impact.\nA:H - The reported failure mode is a kernel crash in the PTP worker/iavf path during reset teardown. Any reproducible kernel oops/panic from this UAF is high availability impact."
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