# 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-2026-43173"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:27:48.097Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:15:27.758Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43173"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43173.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43173"
title: "net: ethernet: xscale: Check for PTP support properly"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: xscale: Check for PTP support properly\n\nIn ixp4xx_get_ts_info() ixp46x_ptp_find() is called\nunconditionally despite this feature only existing on\nixp46x, leading to the following splat from tcpdump:\n\nroot@OpenWrt:~# tcpdump -vv -X -i eth0\n(...)\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address\n  00000238 when read\n(...)\nCall trace:\n ptp_clock_index from ixp46x_ptp_find+0x1c/0x38\n ixp46x_ptp_find from ixp4xx_get_ts_info+0x4c/0x64\n ixp4xx_get_ts_info from __ethtool_get_ts_info+0x90/0x108\n __ethtool_get_ts_info from __dev_ethtool+0xa00/0x2648\n __dev_ethtool from dev_ethtool+0x160/0x234\n dev_ethtool from dev_ioctl+0x2cc/0x460\n dev_ioctl from sock_ioctl+0x1ec/0x524\n sock_ioctl from sys_ioctl+0x51c/0xa94\n sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x44\n (...)\nSegmentation fault\n\nCheck for ixp46x in ixp46x_ptp_find() before trying to set up\nPTP to avoid this.\n\nTo avoid altering the returned error code from ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set()\nwhich before this patch was -EOPNOTSUPP, we return -EOPNOTSUPP\nfrom ixp4xx_hwtstamp_set() if ixp46x_ptp_find() fails no matter\nthe error code. The helper function ixp46x_ptp_find() helper\nreturns -ENODEV."
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