Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 24, 2026
net: bcmgenet: fix leaking free_bds
CVE-2026-53087
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bcmgenet: fix leaking free_bds
While reclaiming the tx queue we fast forward the write pointer to drop any data in flight. These dropped frames are not added back to the pool of free bds. We also need to tell the netdev that we are dropping said data.
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/150d06aae1839a6564ab200ef0e7291c3528bbb0mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/25ff3a3e47ea635ec08dc93e84dd2bfe15abfebbmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c3abbcfa05bad17965498ff7cc94c2418fa94b3mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f3168300efb839028328d720ab3962f91d6a0d0mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/52b9f80993698138b90e5ca3a72550a2501f2a96mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac4a29c331ecb5b10240c44247a8e010c95bc15bmitre
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