{"id":"CVE-2026-53299","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-53299","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:44:44.828Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: airoha: Move ndesc initialization at end of airoha_qdma_init_tx()\n\nIf queue entry list allocation fails in airoha_qdma_init_tx_queue routine,\nairoha_qdma_cleanup_tx_queue() will trigger a NULL pointer dereference\naccessing the queue entry array. The issue is due to the early ndesc\ninitialization in airoha_qdma_init_tx_queue(). Fix the issue moving ndesc\ninitialization at end of airoha_qdma_init_tx routine.","published":"2026-06-26T20:17:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-07-08T03:39:12.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0016,"percentile":0.05142,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90619fdedfb9cc8a80f217d882ee7a84d3703e72","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ece31f9dae0c3cd3277e66667e7b8ab2577cf34a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f329924bb49458c65297f1361f545816a5b90998","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53299","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}