Bug 2555060 (CVE-2026-98791) - CVE-2026-98791 kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix AF_XDP TX timestamp teardown NULL dereference
Summary: CVE-2026-98791 kernel: net/mlx5e: Fix AF_XDP TX timestamp teardown NULL deref...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98791
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:52 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 11:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:52:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5e: Fix AF_XDP TX timestamp teardown NULL dereference

During XSK TX queue teardown, outstanding descriptors are completed
without a CQE. If one requested a TX timestamp, the completion path
passes that NULL CQE to mlx5e_xsk_fill_timestamp(), which dereferences
it.

Return zero when no CQE is available, indicating that teardown did not
produce a TX timestamp.


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