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GHSA-C536-FGJ4-J8C9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-15 06:32

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

net: liquidio: fix BAR resource leak on PF number failure

If cn23xx_get_pf_num() fails, the function returns without unmapping either BAR. Unmap both BARs before returning from the error path.

Found by manual code review.

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CVE-2026-72038 (GCVE-0-2026-72038)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:07

Title

net: liquidio: fix BAR resource leak on PF number failure

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: liquidio: fix BAR resource leak on PF number failure If cn23xx_get_pf_num() fails, the function returns without unmapping either BAR. Unmap both BARs before returning from the error path. Found by manual code review.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75b924759de942776…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a45884566bab4122…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/020e52aee732bb08e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b74f293e5f38052cf…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a22103618ee5b6ee8…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/715cce38424fb2488…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4140c516473a0e116…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c63ee62a3c4ac1a15…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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