CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72329

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's liquidio driver, there is an issue with caching VF pci_dev pointers without proper reference counting, potentially leading to use-after-free when handling FLR requests.

Risk Assessment

Potential privilege escalation or system crash due to use-after-free in the network driver.

Recommendation

Apply a Linux kernel update containing the fix that replaces cached pointers with runtime VF lookup.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/liquidio: drop cached VF pci_dev LUT The PF SR-IOV enable path caches VF pci_dev pointers in dpiring_to_vfpcidev_lut[] by iterating with pci_get_device(). Those entries do not own a reference, because the iterator drops the previous device reference on each step. The cached pointer is then dereferenced later when handling OCTEON_VF_FLR_REQUEST. Replace the cached VF mapping with runtime lookup on the mailbox DPI ring: derive the VF index from q_no, resolve the VF via exported PCI IOV helpers, validate it with the PF pointer and VF ID, then issue pcie_flr() and drop the reference with pci_dev_put(). Remove the unused VF lookup table initialization and cleanup.

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