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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-80991 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ravb: serialize PTP clock teardown ravb_ptp_interrupt() can race with ravb_ptp_stop() and pass the clock to ptp_clock_event() while ptp_clock_unregister() is freeing it. This can lead to a use-after-free.

[NVD] CVE-2026-80991 (HIGH 7.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ravb: serialize PTP clock teardown ravb_ptp_interrupt() can race with ravb_ptp_stop() and pass the clock to ptp_clock_event() while ptp_clock_unregister() is freeing it. This can lead to a use-after-free.

mednvdPublished 2026-09-11

CVE-2026-80991 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-09-11T20:19:05.993

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

net: ravb: serialize PTP clock teardown

ravb_ptp_interrupt() can race with ravb_ptp_stop() and pass the clock to ptp_clock_event() while ptp_clock_unregister() is freeing it. This can lead to a use-after-free.

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Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80991