CVE-2026-23256

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/03/2026
Last modified:
19/03/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup<br /> <br /> In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label<br /> setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--)<br /> skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.<br /> <br /> Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i<br /> down to 0.<br /> <br /> Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.

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