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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53008"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:19.459Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T10:07:36.576Z"
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-2026-53008"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53008.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53008"
title: "ice: fix race condition in TX timestamp ring cleanup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: fix race condition in TX timestamp ring cleanup\n\nFix a race condition between ice_free_tx_tstamp_ring() and ice_tx_map()\nthat can cause a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nice_free_tx_tstamp_ring currently clears the ICE_TX_FLAGS_TXTIME flag\nafter NULLing the tstamp_ring. This could allow a concurrent ice_tx_map\ncall on another CPU to dereference the tstamp_ring, which could lead to\na NULL pointer dereference.\n\n  CPU A:ice_free_tx_tstamp_ring() | CPU B:ice_tx_map()\n  --------------------------------|---------------------------------\n  tx_ring-\u003etstamp_ring = NULL     |\n                                  | ice_is_txtime_cfg() -\u003e true\n                                  | tstamp_ring = tx_ring-\u003etstamp_ring\n                                  | tstamp_ring-\u003ecount  // NULL deref!\n  flags &= ~ICE_TX_FLAGS_TXTIME   |\n\nFix by:\n1. Reordering ice_free_tx_tstamp_ring() to clear the flag before\n   NULLing the pointer, with smp_wmb() to ensure proper ordering.\n2. Adding smp_rmb() in ice_tx_map() after the flag check to order the\n   flag read before the pointer read, using READ_ONCE() for the\n   pointer, and adding a NULL check as a safety net.\n3. Converting tx_ring-\u003eflags from u8 to DECLARE_BITMAP() and using\n   atomic bitops (set_bit(), clear_bit(), test_bit()) for all flag\n   operations throughout the driver:\n   - ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_XDP\n   - ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_VLAN_L2TAG1\n   - ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_VLAN_L2TAG2\n   - ICE_TX_RING_FLAGS_TXTIME"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ccde82e909467abdf098a8ee6f63e1ecf9a47ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e98cea6d5562f546482fab8ad571e95e3fff1800"},{"version":"ccde82e909467abdf098a8ee6f63e1ecf9a47ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"097409d20465723283632515df73038a4a853eda"},{"version":"ccde82e909467abdf098a8ee6f63e1ecf9a47ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c72ec18c2a4111204c2e915f8e4f6d849ce9398"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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