CVE-2025-21822

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
27/02/2025
Last modified:
27/02/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> ptp: vmclock: Set driver data before its usage<br /> <br /> If vmclock_ptp_register() fails during probing, vmclock_remove() is<br /> called to clean up the ptp clock and misc device.<br /> It uses dev_get_drvdata() to access the vmclock state.<br /> However the driver data is not yet set at this point.<br /> <br /> Assign the driver data earlier.

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