CVE-2026-72499 (GCVE-0-2026-72499)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:57
Modified
2026-08-17 05:44
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bnxt_re: Free CQ toggle page after firmware teardown Free the toggle page only after firmware teardown completes so that an NQ interrupt arriving during bnxt_qplib_destroy_cq() won't write the toggle value to an already-freed page. Move free_page() after bnxt_qplib_destroy_cq.
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Linux Linux Version: e275919d96693c5ca964b20d73a33d52a7e57f04
Version: e275919d96693c5ca964b20d73a33d52a7e57f04
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