5.5

CVE-2024-38593: net: micrel: Fix receiving the timestamp in the frame for lan8841

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38593DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38593
Published 19-06-2024Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-38593 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 5
MGASA-2024-0263MGASA-2024-0266RHSA-2024:4583USN-6949-1USN-6949-2USN-6952-1

Timeline

  1. 19-06-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: micrel: Fix receiving the timestamp in the frame for lan8841 The blamed commit started to use the ptp workqueue to get the second part of the timestamp. And when the port was set down, then this workqueue is stopped. But if the config option NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING is not enabled, then the ptp_clock is not initialized so then it would crash when it would try to access the delayed work. So then basically by setting up and then down the port, it would crash. The fix consists in checking if the ptp_clock is initialized and only then cancel the delayed work.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

13%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.22% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu92 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-40.40
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1013.14
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ cc75549548482ed653c23f212544e58cb38ea980, < 3ddf170e4a604f5d4d9459a36993f5e92b53e8b0 | ≥ cc75549548482ed653c23f212544e58cb38ea980, < 3fd4282d5f25c3c97fef3ef0b89b82ef4e2bc975 | ≥ cc75549548482ed653c23f212544e58cb38ea980, < 64a47cf634ae44e92be24ebc982410841093bd7b | ≥ cc75549548482ed653c23f212544e58cb38ea980, < aea27a92a41dae14843f92c79e9e42d8f570105c | 6.5
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.5, < 6.6.33 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.8.12 | ≥ 6.9, < 6.9.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.8.12-1

3 vendors · 95 products

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