CVE-2024-46856 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: phy: dp83822: Fix NULL pointer dereference on DP83825 devices

The probe() function is only used for DP83822 and DP83826 PHY leaving the private data pointer uninitialized for the DP83825 models which causes a NULL pointer dereference in the recently introduced/changed functions dp8382x_config_init() and dp83822_set_wol().

Add the dp8382x_probe() function so all PHY models will have a valid private data pointer to fix this issue and also prevent similar issues in the future.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67b61e2f4c9c5df97a9a2ef7a1fe35eae00531f4 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f62ea572b3e8e3f10c39a9cb4f04ca9ae5f2952