CVE-2026-53231
MEDIUMnet: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy
Title source: cnaDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: don't try to setup PHY-driven SFP cages when using genphy We don't have support for PHY-driver SFP cages with the genphy code. On top of that, it was found by sashiko that running sfp_bus_add_upstream() for genphy deadlocks, as for genphy the PHY probing runs under RTNL, which isn't the case for non-genphy drivers. This problem was reproduced, and does lead to a deadlock on RTNL. Before the blamed commit, the phy_sfp_probe() call was made by individual PHY drivers, so there was no way to get to the SFP probing path when using genphy. Let's therefore only run phy_sfp_probe when not using genphy.
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0009
EPSS Percentile
0.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-667
Status
published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel
7.0.0 - 7.0.13linux
Linux/Linux
< 7.0
Linux/Linux
7.0
Linux/Linux
7.0.13 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux
7.1
Linux/Linux
bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095 - 5a0082ec20a05ef2378410323a5089a8f1786f4a
Linux/Linux
bad869b5e41a08424ff130fd6bb41b854be70095 - ef8d739eee6f85303cbecebc01eb72f063de74e0
linux/linux_kernel
7.1 rc1 (7 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
7.0 - 7.0.13
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Tracked Since
Jun 25, 2026