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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98795"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:39.633Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:25:48.008Z"
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-2026-98795"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98795.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98795"
title: "net: sparx5: skip ptp deinit if init was skipped"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: sparx5: skip ptp deinit if init was skipped\n\nsparx5_ptp_init() returns early on the base lan969x variants\nbecause they do not have the SPX5_FEATURE_PTP flag. It also returns early\nwhen no \"ptp\" interrupt is described. Unbinding the driver then causes a\nNULL pointer dereference when cleaning up uninitialized tx_skbs queues:\n\n    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address\n    0000000000000008\n    Call trace:\n    skb_queue_purge_reason+0x68/0x120 (P)\n    sparx5_ptp_deinit+0x64/0xc0\n    mchp_sparx5_remove+0x38/0x70\n    platform_remove+0x20/0x30\n    device_remove+0x4c/0x80\n\nBefore per-port tx_skbs were added, a NULL dereference would have happened\nwhen calling ptp_clock_unregister() on the never-registered PTP clocks.\n\nFix by returning early in sparx5_ptp_deinit() if PTP is not used."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0933bd04047c3b96ba49545a8f91e7e6f8f666ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35c706d6eb1963735814c5f5bb2674a96eacf3cc"},{"version":"0933bd04047c3b96ba49545a8f91e7e6f8f666ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2879b65bfa548e10d59c5fba91d17f8a00cd7029"},{"version":"0933bd04047c3b96ba49545a8f91e7e6f8f666ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d2c49915bc3aea4521cda5e4d42f24f63b94585"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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