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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2026· Updated May 21, 2026

CVE-2026-23256

CVE-2026-23256

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup

In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--) skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.

Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i down to 0.

Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.

Affected products

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Patches

0

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