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GHSA-284X-89CM-VM4H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-23 12:31 – Updated: 2026-10-24 15:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5: HWS, Handle destroying table that has a miss table

If a table has a miss table that was created by 'mlx5hws_table_set_default_miss' API function, its miss_tbl keeps the table that points to it in a list. If such table is deleted, we need to also remove it from the miss_tbl list, otherwise the node in miss_tbl list will contain garbage.

Severity

7.0 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-98895"
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  "id": "GHSA-284x-89cm-vm4h",
  "modified": "2026-10-24T15:32:47Z",
  "published": "2026-10-23T12:31:37Z",
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CVE-2026-98895 (GCVE-0-2026-98895)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 11:37 – Updated: 2026-10-24 14:09

Title

net/mlx5: HWS, Handle destroying table that has a miss table

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: HWS, Handle destroying table that has a miss table If a table has a miss table that was created by 'mlx5hws_table_set_default_miss' API function, its miss_tbl keeps the table that points to it in a list. If such table is deleted, we need to also remove it from the miss_tbl list, otherwise the node in miss_tbl list will contain garbage.

Severity

7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16b81428f7b5f253a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6efdc212627cecf33…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60e9e82f162ab7399…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 16b81428f7b5f253ab30a998bc4f4ecd1c8823f8 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6efdc212627cecf33b594256ae4460b4c52a126a (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 60e9e82f162ab7399373ff2185119289e4f6dc06 (git) Affected: 0 , < 6.12.111 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 6.18.53 (semver)
Linux	Linux	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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