CVE-2026-31436

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
22/04/2026
Last modified:
22/04/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> dmaengine: idxd: fix possible wrong descriptor completion in llist_abort_desc()<br /> <br /> At the end of this function, d is the traversal cursor of flist, but the<br /> code completes found instead. This can lead to issues such as NULL pointer<br /> dereferences, double completion, or descriptor leaks.<br /> <br /> Fix this by completing d instead of found in the final<br /> list_for_each_entry_safe() loop.

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