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CVE-2026-74545 (GCVE-0-2026-74545)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:27 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:48
VLAI
Title
rtase: fix double free of multi-frag skb on DMA map failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rtase: fix double free of multi-frag skb on DMA map failure In rtase_start_xmit(), when the head buffer DMA mapping fails after rtase_xmit_frags() has mapped all fragments, the error path clears the fragment descriptors with rtase_tx_clear_range(), which frees the skb through the last-frag slot and accounts tx_dropped. Control then falls through to the common error label, which frees the same skb a second time and counts it again. Return right after clearing the fragments when the skb owns frags; the no-frag case still drops through and frees the head skb once.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d6e882b89fdf80be0ab4f914ec10f75215e49495 , < 4f09172aff5f73a5e914f4fbc0d00a1c2ea9f7cb (git)
Affected: d6e882b89fdf80be0ab4f914ec10f75215e49495 , < db986098f30881fafcc752800aa3b13fd289c922 (git)
Affected: d6e882b89fdf80be0ab4f914ec10f75215e49495 , < de691dc3227b061c4d0beba9f0128fe1ff33dd68 (git)
Affected: d6e882b89fdf80be0ab4f914ec10f75215e49495 , < 6fb7b769d6ed6d1d2e02af4a80e57a2477f35086 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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