CVE-2026-53299net: airoha: Move ndesc initialization at end of airoha_qdma_init_tx()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.16%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 95% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: airoha: Move ndesc initialization at end of airoha_qdma_init_tx() If queue entry list allocation fails in airoha_qdma_init_tx_queue routine, airoha_qdma_cleanup_tx_queue() will trigger a NULL pointer dereference accessing the queue entry array. The issue is due to the early ndesc initialization in airoha_qdma_init_tx_queue(). Fix the issue moving ndesc initialization at end of airoha_qdma_init_tx routine.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected ad02cb61c52cae5afa3e2de6adbb49ad884c26e9 – < 90619fdedfb9cc8a80f217d882ee7a84d3703e72
- affected 3f47e67dff1f7266e112c50313d63824f6f17102 – < ece31f9dae0c3cd3277e66667e7b8ab2577cf34a
- affected 3f47e67dff1f7266e112c50313d63824f6f17102 – < f329924bb49458c65297f1361f545816a5b90998
- affected 6.19
- unaffected < 6.19
- unaffected 7.0.10 – ≤ 7.0.*
- unaffected 7.1 – ≤ *
References
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-39834 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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