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CVE-2026-63857

9.8 critical Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: airoha: Do not read uninitialized fragment address in airoha_dev_xmit() The transmit loop in airoha_dev_xmit() reads fragment address and length during its final iteration, when the loop index equals skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, at which point the fragment data is uninitialized. While these values are never consumed, the read itself is unsafe and may trigger a page fault. Fix this by avoiding the fragment read on the last iteration. Additionally, move the skb pointer from the first to the last used packet descriptor, so that airoha_qdma_tx_napi_poll() defers freeing the skb until the final descriptor is processed.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 3

  1. StatusUndergoing Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:42
  2. StatusPublished → Undergoing AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:19
  3. First seenCVSS 9.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:42

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 4