In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mdiobus: Fix potential out-of-bounds clause 45 read/write access When using publicly available tools like 'mdio-tools' to read/write data from/to network interface and its PHY via C45 (clause 45) mdiobus, there is no verification of parameters passed to the ioctl and it accepts any mdio address. Currently there is support for 32 addresses in kernel via PHY_MAX_ADDR define, but it is possible to pass higher value than that via ioctl. While read/write operation should generally fail in this case, mdiobus provides stats array, where wrong address may allow out-of-bounds read/write. Fix that by adding address verification before C45 read/write operation. While this excludes this access from any statistics, it improves security of read/write operation.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/260388f79e94fb3026c419a208ece8358bb7b555 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31bf7b2b92563a352788cf9df3698682f659bacc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ded22f7f3ce9714ed72c3e9c68fea1cb9388ae7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abb0605ca00979a49572a6516f6db22c3dc57223 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.1 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 22:18
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/260388f79e94fb3026c419a208ece8358bb7b555 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31bf7b2b92563a352788cf9df3698682f659bacc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ded22f7f3ce9714ed72c3e9c68fea1cb9388ae7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abb0605ca00979a49572a6516f6db22c3dc57223 Patch