CVE-2026-53087 (GCVE-0-2026-53087)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 16:30 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:33
VLAI
Title
net: bcmgenet: fix leaking free_bds
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmgenet: fix leaking free_bds While reclaiming the tx queue we fast forward the write pointer to drop any data in flight. These dropped frames are not added back to the pool of free bds. We also need to tell the netdev that we are dropping said data.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6a84791b63044cdee3ab55eb350e6352b751f584 , < 150d06aae1839a6564ab200ef0e7291c3528bbb0 (git)
Affected: 991cd78f95f2a1d6097669afaff66aeeba35f5fd , < 52b9f80993698138b90e5ca3a72550a2501f2a96 (git)
Affected: 3877efc13053408f4cf2e821006d6ddd1929200f , < 3c3abbcfa05bad17965498ff7cc94c2418fa94b3 (git)
Affected: f1bacae8b655163dcbc3c54b9e714ef1a8986d7b , < 25ff3a3e47ea635ec08dc93e84dd2bfe15abfebb (git)
Affected: f1bacae8b655163dcbc3c54b9e714ef1a8986d7b , < ac4a29c331ecb5b10240c44247a8e010c95bc15b (git)
Affected: f1bacae8b655163dcbc3c54b9e714ef1a8986d7b , < 3f3168300efb839028328d720ab3962f91d6a0d0 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.33 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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