CVE-2026-98911 (GCVE-0-2026-98911)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 11:54 – Updated: 2026-10-26 06:56
VLAI
Title
dpaa2-switch: fix the error path in dpaa2_switch_rx()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dpaa2-switch: fix the error path in dpaa2_switch_rx() In case of an error in dpaa2_switch_rx(), the dpaa2_switch_free_fd() function is called in order to free the FD. This is incorrect since the dpaa2_switch_free_fd() is intended to be used on Tx frame descriptors, meaning that it expects in the software annotation area of the FD data to find a valid skb pointer on which to call dev_kfree_skb(). Fix this by extracting the dma_unmap_page() from dpaa2_switch_build_linear_skb() directly into the dpaa2_switch_rx() function. This allows us to directly use free_pages() in case of an error before an SKB was created and kfree_skb() afterwards.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7067 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 613c0a5810b79610db8535c3816b0c149675f8ee , < 791068c962469af0090e1a1ee63657fb9eef40db (git)
Affected: 613c0a5810b79610db8535c3816b0c149675f8ee , < ee54f8d7e642c44cfcc2dcb390b4c50e145d81b8 (git)
Affected: 613c0a5810b79610db8535c3816b0c149675f8ee , < 259ad6093204b999d41e7e6d0ad90ef9a71a44ab (git)
Affected: 613c0a5810b79610db8535c3816b0c149675f8ee , < f4ceb8e3d6d5becb4cda7a7098a8638e18c835a1 (git)
Affected: 613c0a5810b79610db8535c3816b0c149675f8ee , < fa232b4496cb59503ae5108c756cbe10e59b0bc3 (git)
Affected: 613c0a5810b79610db8535c3816b0c149675f8ee , < 74c1c9f5c0c30bbd0c2cf87b6e3507e7ea46c13d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.222 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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