THREAT OPS › Threat 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.
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
- CVE-2026-80991cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80991