# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23041"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:00:24.710Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:58:51.518Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23041"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23041.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23041"
title: "bnxt_en: Fix NULL pointer crash in bnxt_ptp_enable during error cleanup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: Fix NULL pointer crash in bnxt_ptp_enable during error cleanup\n\nWhen bnxt_init_one() fails during initialization (e.g.,\nbnxt_init_int_mode returns -ENODEV), the error path calls\nbnxt_free_hwrm_resources() which destroys the DMA pool and sets\nbp-\u003ehwrm_dma_pool to NULL. Subsequently, bnxt_ptp_clear() is called,\nwhich invokes ptp_clock_unregister().\n\nSince commit a60fc3294a37 (\"ptp: rework ptp_clock_unregister() to\ndisable events\"), ptp_clock_unregister() now calls\nptp_disable_all_events(), which in turn invokes the driver's .enable()\ncallback (bnxt_ptp_enable()) to disable PTP events before completing the\nunregistration.\n\nbnxt_ptp_enable() attempts to send HWRM commands via bnxt_ptp_cfg_pin()\nand bnxt_ptp_cfg_event(), both of which call hwrm_req_init(). This\nfunction tries to allocate from bp-\u003ehwrm_dma_pool, causing a NULL\npointer dereference:\n\n  bnxt_en 0000:01:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): bnxt_init_int_mode err: ffffffed\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]\n  Call Trace:\n   __hwrm_req_init (drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_hwrm.c:72)\n   bnxt_ptp_enable (drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c:323 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c:517)\n   ptp_disable_all_events (drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c:66)\n   ptp_clock_unregister (drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c:518)\n   bnxt_ptp_clear (drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c:1134)\n   bnxt_init_one (drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c:16889)\n\nLines are against commit f8f9c1f4d0c7 (\"Linux 6.19-rc3\")\n\nFix this by clearing and unregistering ptp (bnxt_ptp_clear()) before\nfreeing HWRM resources."
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