# 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-2026-72037"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:57.745Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:07:02.911Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72037"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72037.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72037"
title: "net: lan743x: Initialize eth_syslock spinlock before use"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: lan743x: Initialize eth_syslock spinlock before use\n\nlan743x_hardware_init() calls pci11x1x_strap_get_status() during the\nPCI11x1x probe sequence. That helper acquires the Ethernet subsystem\nhardware lock via lan743x_hs_syslock_acquire(), which relies on\nadapter-\u003eeth_syslock_spinlock to serialize access.\n\nThe spinlock is currently initialized only after the strap status is\nread. With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK enabled, taking the zeroed initialized\nspinlock can trip the spinlock debug check.\n\nFix by initializing adapter-\u003eeth_syslock_spinlock before reading the\nstrap status so the probe path never attempts to lock an uninitialized\nspinlock."
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