CVE-2026-23256 (GCVE-0-2026-23256)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-18 17:41 – Updated: 2026-03-18 17:41
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Title
net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--) skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak. Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i down to 0. Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.
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Linux Linux Affected: 846b46873eeb3baf40f7e6d8fe8f98aec95e7727 , < bd680e56e316be92c01568be98d85d7a6c9bd92c (git)
Affected: 846b46873eeb3baf40f7e6d8fe8f98aec95e7727 , < 01fbca1e93ec3f39f76c31a8f9afa32ce00da48a (git)
Affected: 846b46873eeb3baf40f7e6d8fe8f98aec95e7727 , < 71a56b89203ec7e5670d94a61a9b4ae617eca804 (git)
Affected: 846b46873eeb3baf40f7e6d8fe8f98aec95e7727 , < 3bf519e39b51cb08a93c0599870b35a23db1031e (git)
Affected: 846b46873eeb3baf40f7e6d8fe8f98aec95e7727 , < 52b19b3a22306fe452ec9e8ff96063f4bfb77b99 (git)
Affected: 846b46873eeb3baf40f7e6d8fe8f98aec95e7727 , < 4640fa5ad5e1a0dbd1c2d22323b7d70a8107dcfd (git)
Affected: 846b46873eeb3baf40f7e6d8fe8f98aec95e7727 , < 6cbba46934aefdfb5d171e0a95aec06c24f7ca30 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.250 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.200 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.163 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.124 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.70 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.10 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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