# 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-2026-53227"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:27.229Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:22:50.635Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53227"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53227.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53227"
title: "net: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: openvswitch: fix possible kfree_skb of ERR_PTR\n\nAfter the patch in the \"Fixes\" tag, the allocation of the \"reply\" skb\ncan happen either before or after locking the ovs_mutex.\n\nHowever, error cleanups still follow the classical reversed order,\nassuming \"reply\" is allocated before locking: it is freed after unlocking.\n\nIf \"reply\" allocation happens after locking the mutex and it fails,\n\"reply\" is left with an ERR_PTR, and execution jumps to the correspondent\ncleanup stage which will try to free an invalid pointer.\n\nFix this by setting the pointer to NULL after having saved its error\nvalue."
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