CVE-2026-98492 (GCVE-0-2026-98492)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-18 15:16
Modified
2026-10-19 09:20
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: macb: fix dma_alloc_coherent() leak on macb_alloc() error paths Fix 3 leaks in macb_alloc() error paths: - Tx buffer allocated but crossing a 4G boundary: Tx leaked. - Rx buffer allocation fails: Tx leaked. - Rx buffer allocated but crossing a 4G boundary: Tx & Rx leaked. This is because our error handling calls macb_free(bp) which in turn frees the buffers stored in bp->queues[0], but nothing has been stored in there. Fix by storing allocated buffers into bp->queues[0] ASAP.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 78d901897b3cae06b38f54e48a2378cf9da21175
Version: 78d901897b3cae06b38f54e48a2378cf9da21175
Version: 78d901897b3cae06b38f54e48a2378cf9da21175
Version: 982a4d9a2e12b693f684eff943043a607628d871
Version: 6.17.3   ≤
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