# 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-2026-53338"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-01T13:32:21.147Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-01T13:32:21.147Z"
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-2026-53338"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53338.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53338"
title: "net: airoha: Add NULL check for of_reserved_mem_lookup() in airoha_qdma_init_hfwd_queues()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: airoha: Add NULL check for of_reserved_mem_lookup() in airoha_qdma_init_hfwd_queues()\n\nof_reserved_mem_lookup() may return NULL if the reserved memory region\nreferenced by the \"memory-region\" phandle is not found in the reserved\nmemory table (e.g. due to a misconfigured DTS or a removed\nmemory-region node).  The current code dereferences the returned\npointer without checking for NULL, leading to a kernel NULL pointer\ndereference at the following lines:\n\n    dma_addr = rmem-\u003ebase;                          // line 1156\n    num_desc = div_u64(rmem-\u003esize, buf_size);       // line 1160\n\nAdd a NULL check after of_reserved_mem_lookup() and return -ENODEV if\nthe lookup fails, which is consistent with the existing error handling\nfor of_parse_phandle() failure in the same code block."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3a1ce9e3d01bbf3912c3e3f81cb554d558eb715b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01f7d4b504580664d36faea5671cde5e3f0d8a5b"},{"version":"3a1ce9e3d01bbf3912c3e3f81cb554d558eb715b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cdb96c42db7b256348f9b57718debfaa4bca6b39"},{"version":"3a1ce9e3d01bbf3912c3e3f81cb554d558eb715b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9f25118faa4dd2b6e3d14a03d123bbdbd59925d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","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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