# 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-2026-97963"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:06.749Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:11:29.173Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97963"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97963.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97963"
title: "net: stmmac: initialize ptp_lock at probe time"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: stmmac: initialize ptp_lock at probe time\n\npriv-\u003eptp_lock is only initialized in stmmac_ptp_register(), which runs\nduring __stmmac_open(). However, the lock is also used while the\ninterface is down and has never been opened: tc_taprio_configure()\ninvokes the PTP gettime64() callback to compute the EST base time when\noffloading a TAPRIO schedule, and stmmac_get_time() takes\npriv-\u003eptp_lock. Using an uninitialized rwlock is undefined behaviour.\nMove the rwlock_init() to __stmmac_dvr_probe(), together with the other\nprivate locks, so that ptp_lock is always valid regardless of the\ninterface state."
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