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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98008" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:33.532Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:13.751Z" 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-2026-98008" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98008.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98008" title: "net: macb: fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind with fixed-link" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: macb: fix NULL pointer dereference on unbind with fixed-link\n\nWhen the device tree describes a fixed-link and has no \"mdio\" child\nnode, macb_mii_init() returns early without allocating the MDIO bus,\nleaving bp-\u003emii_bus as NULL.\n\nTwo cleanup paths then dereference this NULL bus:\n\n1. On driver unbind, macb_remove() unconditionally calls\n mdiobus_unregister(bp-\u003emii_bus), which oopses:\n\n Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000004a8\n pc : mdiobus_unregister+0x14/0xa4\n lr : macb_remove+0x38/0xa4\n Call trace:\n mdiobus_unregister+0x14/0xa4 (P)\n macb_remove+0x38/0xa4\n platform_remove+0x20/0x30\n device_release_driver_internal+0x1c8/0x224\n unbind_store+0xb4/0xbc\n\n2. On the probe error path in macb_probe(), reached when\n macb_mii_init() has succeeded but a subsequent step fails, the\n err_out_unregister_mdio label runs the same unconditional cleanup.\n\nmdiobus_unregister() and mdiobus_free() do not guard against a NULL\nbus, so guard the calls in both macb_remove() and the probe error\npath." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"831e19e565b5210930fa183730071f8290c61263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"afa224cabc0132ca414b9141b1a919ca2d318cd0"},{"version":"81db1e52848694761a1aa162ce76198af9964ed8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"054ad8e66025eb4778d840bef80c270646cebcd2"},{"version":"d0c3601f2c4e12e7689b0f46ebc17525250ea8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f737d999fcb8f276d77b01ea4c2016ee01dad19b"},{"version":"d0c3601f2c4e12e7689b0f46ebc17525250ea8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5710f6a74f63cbba0e15cd75917234916181c9d4"},{"version":"d0c3601f2c4e12e7689b0f46ebc17525250ea8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"edb39c7666bb3924da761dfb417db85c1e5d8ad3"},{"version":"d0c3601f2c4e12e7689b0f46ebc17525250ea8c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38b6be101006d3e7af972999f45d4f1e8250587a"},{"version":"cafa5942bd2df3d80e3eeb2deb4bc050f7761f3d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c81dcaa9cd0b66816c2ecb6c5df0b6afde9c7da5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"19088c5378c9fea54e552d8bc7418a3aa1e06990","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.114","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.189"},{"version":"6.6.58","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"},{"version":"5.10.228","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.169","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.11.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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