Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-64122
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover
mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover() accesses sq->netdev after
mlx5e_safe_reopen_channels() has torn down and freed the channel (and
its embedded SQs). Replace the three sq->netdev references with
priv->netdev which is safe because priv outlives channel teardown.
The netdev_err() call already used priv->netdev for this reason; make
the trylock/unlock and health_channel_eq_recover calls consistent.
This fixes the following KASAN splat:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover+0x1dd/0x360 [mlx5_core]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff889860ed0b28 by task kworker/u113:2/5277
Call Trace:
mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover+0x1dd/0x360 [mlx5_core]
devlink_health_reporter_recover+0xa2/0x150
devlink_health_report+0x254/0x7c0
mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout+0x297/0x380 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_tx_timeout_work+0x109/0x170 [mlx5_core]
process_one_work+0x677/0xf20
worker_thread+0x51f/0xd90
kthread+0x3a5/0x810
ret_from_fork+0x208/0x400
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 38.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
Products affected by CVE-2026-64122
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.16
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.17
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.18
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.20
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.21
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.22
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.23
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.24
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.25
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.26
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.27
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.28
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.29
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.30
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.31
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.32
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.33
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1