CVE-2026-63973 (GCVE-0-2026-63973)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 14:55 – Updated: 2026-07-19 14:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net: mana: Add NULL guards in teardown path to prevent panic on attach failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mana: Add NULL guards in teardown path to prevent panic on attach failure
When queue allocation fails partway through, the error cleanup frees
and NULLs apc->tx_qp and apc->rxqs. Multiple teardown paths such as
mana_remove(), mana_change_mtu() recovery, and internal error handling
in mana_alloc_queues() can subsequently call into functions that
dereference these pointers without NULL checks:
- mana_chn_setxdp() dereferences apc->rxqs[0], causing a NULL pointer
dereference panic (CR2: 0000000000000000 at mana_chn_setxdp+0x26).
- mana_destroy_vport() iterates apc->rxqs without a NULL check.
- mana_fence_rqs() iterates apc->rxqs without a NULL check.
- mana_dealloc_queues() iterates apc->tx_qp without a NULL check.
Add NULL guards for apc->rxqs in mana_fence_rqs(),
mana_destroy_vport(), and before the mana_chn_setxdp() call. Add a
NULL guard for apc->tx_qp in mana_dealloc_queues() to skip TX queue
draining when TX queues were never allocated or already freed.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < da7e4a1aaf397af6a094f640c92d6bc7564c10db
(git)
Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 95e414f8324385771bdfd6d497a01d5593813ccb (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 26a96fa81496afe7d162d172ccdc8cb9dbc685d2 (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < da87896f34e0a51489811d1a684e2953099ca98f (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 0a9c520fdcb1cb2e79c163c12d359b5e1ee40007 (git) Affected: ca9c54d2d6a5ab2430c4eda364c77125d62e5e0f , < 17bfe0a8c014ee1d542ad352cd6a0a505361664a (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.176 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.143 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.93 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.35 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.12 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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