CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-98324

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the pxa DMA engine driver had a double counting issue of hardware descriptors after conversion to kzalloc_flex(). The fix explicitly sets the nb_desc counter and removes the increment to avoid errors in processing loops.

Risk Assessment

Double counting of descriptors may lead to improper memory management, potentially causing crashes or system instability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix to ensure proper DMA driver operation.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

See all
Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: pxa: fix double counting of the hw descriptors pxad_alloc_desc() was converted from kzalloc(struct_size(sw_desc, hw_desc, nb_hw_desc), GFP_NOWAIT) to kzalloc_flex(), which sets the __counted_by() counter sw_desc->nb_desc itself - but only where the compiler has __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so from gcc 15.1 or clang 22.1 on. The loop below it still increments nb_desc, which makes it come out doubled there and correct elsewhere. nb_desc is what pxad_free_desc() iterates over and what set_updater_desc() indexes from, so set it explicitly and drop the increment. The error path has to lower it to the number of descriptors allocated so far, otherwise pxad_free_desc() would free entries that were never allocated.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS