hns3 driver

Microsoft’s short, one‑line attestation that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” is accurate — but it is a product‑scoped inventory statement, not a universal guarantee that no other Microsoft product contains the same vulnerable Linux kernel...

A small but important kernel fix — tracked as CVE-2024-26881 — plugs a null‑pointer crash in the Linux hns3 network driver that can be triggered when Precision Time Protocol (PTP/1588) packets arrive for HIP08-class HiSilicon devices. Microsoft’s published guidance for the CVE explicitly states...