CVE-2024-56788

Medium

Published: —Translated: 07/08/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a race condition was fixed in the OA TC6 network driver between reference pointers for TX packets. The issue involves managing two skb pointers for packets enqueued from the network stack.

Risk Assessment

The race could lead to network malfunction, packet loss, or system crash.

Recommendation

Install a Linux kernel update that includes the fix for the OA TC6 driver.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: oa_tc6: fix tx skb race condition between reference pointers There are two skb pointers to manage tx skb's enqueued from n/w stack. waiting_tx_skb pointer points to the tx skb which needs to be processed and ongoing