# 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-2026-45891"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:02.306Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:02.306Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45891"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45891.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45891"
title: "net: hns3: fix double free issue for tx spare buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: hns3: fix double free issue for tx spare buffer\n\nIn hns3_set_ringparam(), a temporary copy (tmp_rings) of the ring structure\nis created for rollback. However, the tx_spare pointer in the original\nring handle is incorrectly left pointing to the old backup memory.\n\nLater, if memory allocation fails in hns3_init_all_ring() during the setup,\nthe error path attempts to free all newly allocated rings. Since tx_spare\ncontains a stale (non-NULL) pointer from the backup, it is mistaken for\na newly allocated buffer and is erroneously freed, leading to a double-free\nof the backup memory.\n\nThe root cause is that the tx_spare field was not cleared after its value\nwas saved in tmp_rings, leaving a dangling pointer.\n\nFix this by setting tx_spare to NULL in the original ring structure\nwhen the creation of the new `tx_spare` fails. This ensures the\nerror cleanup path only frees genuinely newly allocated buffers."
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