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CVE-2026-68328

Low risk· EPSS 7%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the nfp driver lacks a check for the resource mutex allocation result. nfp_cpp_resource_find() may return success even if the mutex allocation fails, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when trying to lock the mutex.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to system crashes or driver malfunction when memory allocation fails.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that treats mutex allocation failure as -ENOMEM and fails the resource lookup.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfp: Check resource mutex allocation nfp_cpp_resource_find() allocates a CPP mutex handle for the matching resource-table entry and then reports success. nfp_resource_try_acquire() immediately passes that handle to nfp_cpp_mutex_trylock(). However, nfp_cpp_mutex_alloc() returns NULL on failure. If that happens for a matching table entry, the resource lookup still returns success and the following trylock dereferences a NULL mutex pointer while opening the resource. nfp_resource_acquire() already treats failure to allocate the table mutex as -ENOMEM. Do the same for the resource mutex and fail the lookup before publishing the rest of the resource handle. This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by manual source review.

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