# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38126"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:31.812Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:21:45.819Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38126"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38126.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38126"
title: "net: stmmac: make sure that ptp_rate is not 0 before configuring timestamping"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: stmmac: make sure that ptp_rate is not 0 before configuring timestamping\n\nThe stmmac platform drivers that do not open-code the clk_ptp_rate value\nafter having retrieved the default one from the device-tree can end up\nwith 0 in clk_ptp_rate (as clk_get_rate can return 0). It will\neventually propagate up to PTP initialization when bringing up the\ninterface, leading to a divide by 0:\n\n Division by zero in kernel.\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.30-00001-g48313bd5768a #22\n Hardware name: STM32 (Device Tree Support)\n Call trace:\n  unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c\n  show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x8c\n  dump_stack_lvl from Ldiv0_64+0x8/0x18\n  Ldiv0_64 from stmmac_init_tstamp_counter+0x190/0x1a4\n  stmmac_init_tstamp_counter from stmmac_hw_setup+0xc1c/0x111c\n  stmmac_hw_setup from __stmmac_open+0x18c/0x434\n  __stmmac_open from stmmac_open+0x3c/0xbc\n  stmmac_open from __dev_open+0xf4/0x1ac\n  __dev_open from __dev_change_flags+0x1cc/0x224\n  __dev_change_flags from dev_change_flags+0x24/0x60\n  dev_change_flags from ip_auto_config+0x2e8/0x11a0\n  ip_auto_config from do_one_initcall+0x84/0x33c\n  do_one_initcall from kernel_init_freeable+0x1b8/0x214\n  kernel_init_freeable from kernel_init+0x24/0x140\n  kernel_init from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28\n Exception stack(0xe0815fb0 to 0xe0815ff8)\n\nPrevent this division by 0 by adding an explicit check and error log\nabout the actual issue. While at it, remove the same check from\nstmmac_ptp_register, which then becomes duplicate"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"19d857c9038e5c07db8f8cc02b5ad0cd0098714f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32af9c289234990752281c805500dfe03c5b2b8f"},{"version":"19d857c9038e5c07db8f8cc02b5ad0cd0098714f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b263088ee8ab14563817a8be3519af8e25225793"},{"version":"19d857c9038e5c07db8f8cc02b5ad0cd0098714f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb033c6781ce1b0264c3993b767b4aa9021959c2"},{"version":"19d857c9038e5c07db8f8cc02b5ad0cd0098714f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"379cd990dfe752b38fcf46034698a9a150626c7a"},{"version":"19d857c9038e5c07db8f8cc02b5ad0cd0098714f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"030ce919e114a111e83b7976ecb3597cefd33f26"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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