CVE-2026-98492 (GCVE-0-2026-98492)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-18 15:16
Modified
2026-10-19 09:20
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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.
References
Impacted products
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