CVE-2025-38148

net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping

published July 3, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping

Fix memory leak when running one-step timestamping. When running

one-step sync timestamping, the HW is configured to insert the TX time

into the frame, so there is no reason to keep the skb anymore. As in

this case the HW will never generate an interrupt to say that the frame

was timestamped, then the frame will never released.

Fix this by freeing the frame in case of one-step timestamping.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00176 · 6.8th percentile
Published
2025-07-03T08:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUL 08:35Z
    net: phy: mscc: Fix memory leak when using one step timestamping
    cvelistv5