CVE-2022-49061 net: ethernet: stmmac: fix altr_tse_pcs function when using a fixed-link

What is CVE-2022-49061?

CVE-2022-49061 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethernet: stmmac: fix altr_tse_pcs function when using a fixed-link

When using a fixed-link, the altr_tse_pcs driver crashes due to null-pointer dereference as no phy_device is provided to tse_pcs_fix_mac_speed function. Fix this by adding a check for phy_dev before calling the tse_pcs_fix_mac_speed() function.

Also clean up the tse_pcs_fix_mac_speed function a bit. There is no need to check for splitter_base and sgmii_adapter_base because the driver will fail if these 2 variables are not derived from the device tree.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49061?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49061?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-49061 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49061 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49061, GHSA-mx4m-jchx-4w64, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49061.