# net: macb: destroy the phylink instance on the probe error path

CVE record · `CVE-2026-97973`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-97973`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 25 Sept 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `7897b071ac3b45a5788d084fc7f8a8ee9e5f07f0 to before 0112aa02c7847314be599d68783d50c7e228a694` (git)
  - affected: `7897b071ac3b45a5788d084fc7f8a8ee9e5f07f0 to before c1de1e7b51ab2531f564b39b51998c3d71caccd7` (git)
  - affected: `7897b071ac3b45a5788d084fc7f8a8ee9e5f07f0 to before 23b6a44ffea1c54a4232aa86ee470b21422a8cc5` (git)
  - affected: `7897b071ac3b45a5788d084fc7f8a8ee9e5f07f0 to before e92a45b872b035c79acde8dd0da096a72b61ff2f` (git)
  - affected: `7897b071ac3b45a5788d084fc7f8a8ee9e5f07f0 to before 8558e3195664113c14a4d8fcf221b3caff41fed1` (git)
  - affected: `7897b071ac3b45a5788d084fc7f8a8ee9e5f07f0 to before 7d059f390750152b9bd69df934198651b94fc26d` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `5.5`
  - unaffected: `before 5.5` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.3 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-97973](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97973)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-97973](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97973)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0112aa02c7847314be599d68783d50c7e228a694>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1de1e7b51ab2531f564b39b51998c3d71caccd7>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23b6a44ffea1c54a4232aa86ee470b21422a8cc5>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e92a45b872b035c79acde8dd0da096a72b61ff2f>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8558e3195664113c14a4d8fcf221b3caff41fed1>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d059f390750152b9bd69df934198651b94fc26d>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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