# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23454"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:15:36.189Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:15:14.968Z"
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-2026-23454"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23454.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23454"
title: "net: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: mana: fix use-after-free in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() by reordering teardown\n\nA potential race condition exists in mana_hwc_destroy_channel() where\nhwc-\u003ecaller_ctx is freed before the HWC's Completion Queue (CQ) and\nEvent Queue (EQ) are destroyed. This allows an in-flight CQ interrupt\nhandler to dereference freed memory, leading to a use-after-free or\nNULL pointer dereference in mana_hwc_handle_resp().\n\nmana_smc_teardown_hwc() signals the hardware to stop but does not\nsynchronize against IRQ handlers already executing on other CPUs. The\nIRQ synchronization only happens in mana_hwc_destroy_cq() via\nmana_gd_destroy_eq() -\u003e mana_gd_deregister_irq(). Since this runs\nafter kfree(hwc-\u003ecaller_ctx), a concurrent mana_hwc_rx_event_handler()\ncan dereference freed caller_ctx (and rxq-\u003emsg_buf) in\nmana_hwc_handle_resp().\n\nFix this by reordering teardown to reverse-of-creation order: destroy\nthe TX/RX work queues and CQ/EQ before freeing hwc-\u003ecaller_ctx. This\nensures all in-flight interrupt handlers complete before the memory they\naccess is freed."
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