# 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-2026-23258"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-18T17:41:05.080Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:03:22.860Z"
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-2026-23258"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23258.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23258"
title: "net: liquidio: Initialize netdev pointer before queue setup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: liquidio: Initialize netdev pointer before queue setup\n\nIn setup_nic_devices(), the netdev is allocated using alloc_etherdev_mq().\nHowever, the pointer to this structure is stored in oct-\u003eprops[i].netdev\nonly after the calls to netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() and\nnetif_set_real_num_tx_queues().\n\nIf either of these functions fails, setup_nic_devices() returns an error\nwithout freeing the allocated netdev. Since oct-\u003eprops[i].netdev is still\nNULL at this point, the cleanup function liquidio_destroy_nic_device()\nwill fail to find and free the netdev, resulting in a memory leak.\n\nFix this by initializing oct-\u003eprops[i].netdev before calling the queue\nsetup functions. This ensures that the netdev is properly accessible for\ncleanup in case of errors.\n\nCompile tested only. Issue found using a prototype static analysis tool\nand code review."
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