# CVE-2024-26600: phy: ti: phy-omap-usb2: Fix NULL pointer dereference for SRP

> A NULL pointer dereference in the TI OMAP USB2 PHY driver causes a kernel crash when an external PHY lacks specific callbacks during wakeup events.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 24 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-26600, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26600, GHSA-f54m-q836-9rr6, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26600

## What is CVE-2024-26600?

CVE-2024-26600 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Feb 2024. 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:

phy: ti: phy-omap-usb2: Fix NULL pointer dereference for SRP

If the external phy working together with phy-omap-usb2 does not implement
send_srp(), we may still attempt to call it. This can happen on an idle
Ethernet gadget triggering a wakeup for example:

configfs-gadget.g1 gadget.0: ECM Suspend
configfs-gadget.g1 gadget.0: Port suspended. Triggering wakeup
...
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000000 when execute
...
PC is at 0x0
LR is at musb_gadget_wakeup+0x1d4/0x254 [musb_hdrc]
...
musb_gadget_wakeup [musb_hdrc] from usb_gadget_wakeup+0x1c/0x3c [udc_core]
usb_gadget_wakeup [udc_core] from eth_start_xmit+0x3b0/0x3d4 [u_ether]
eth_start_xmit [u_ether] from dev_hard_start_xmit+0x94/0x24c
dev_hard_start_xmit from sch_direct_xmit+0x104/0x2e4
sch_direct_xmit from __dev_queue_xmit+0x334/0xd88
__dev_queue_xmit from arp_solicit+0xf0/0x268
arp_solicit from neigh_probe+0x54/0x7c
neigh_probe from __neigh_event_send+0x22c/0x47c
__neigh_event_send from neigh_resolve_output+0x14c/0x1c0
neigh_resolve_output from ip_finish_output2+0x1c8/0x628
ip_finish_output2 from ip_send_skb+0x40/0xd8
ip_send_skb from udp_send_skb+0x124/0x340
udp_send_skb from udp_sendmsg+0x780/0x984
udp_sendmsg from __sys_sendto+0xd8/0x158
__sys_sendto from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58

Let's fix the issue by checking for send_srp() and set_vbus() before
calling them. For USB peripheral only cases these both could be NULL.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26600?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-26600?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-26600 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26600 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26600 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-26600 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26600 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26600/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26600/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26600
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26600
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26600

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