CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-98304

Low risk· EPSS 6%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel bcmgenet driver, configured hardware filter rules are lost on every interface up because list initialization in bcmgenet_hfb_init() drops all rules.

Risk Assessment

Loss of filtering rules may lead to unexpected network traffic, violating security policy or network functionality.

Recommendation

Install the patch that initializes lists only once at probe and restores rules on interface open.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmgenet: restore the hardware filters on open bcmgenet_hfb_init() runs INIT_LIST_HEAD() on priv->rxnfc_list, which drops every rule off the list, and bcmgenet_open() calls it on each ifup. Every rule the user configured is silently lost: # ethtool -N eth0 flow-type ether dst $MAC action 0 Added rule with ID 0 # ethtool -n eth0 | grep -c Filter: 1 # ip link set eth0 down && ip link set eth0 up # ethtool -n eth0 | grep -c Filter: 0 Initialise the lists once at probe and restore the rules on open, as bcmgenet_resume() already does.

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