# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23084"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:08:08.456Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:29.777Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23084"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23084.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23084"
title: "be2net: Fix NULL pointer dereference in be_cmd_get_mac_from_list"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbe2net: Fix NULL pointer dereference in be_cmd_get_mac_from_list\n\nWhen the parameter pmac_id_valid argument of be_cmd_get_mac_from_list() is\nset to false, the driver may request the PMAC_ID from the firmware of the\nnetwork card, and this function will store that PMAC_ID at the provided\naddress pmac_id. This is the contract of this function.\n\nHowever, there is a location within the driver where both\npmac_id_valid == false and pmac_id == NULL are being passed. This could\nresult in dereferencing a NULL pointer.\n\nTo resolve this issue, it is necessary to pass the address of a stub\nvariable to the function."
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