# 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-2026-63973"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:59.263Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:59.263Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-63973"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63973.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63973"
title: "net: mana: Add NULL guards in teardown path to prevent panic on attach failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: mana: Add NULL guards in teardown path to prevent panic on attach failure\n\nWhen queue allocation fails partway through, the error cleanup frees\nand NULLs apc-\u003etx_qp and apc-\u003erxqs. Multiple teardown paths such as\nmana_remove(), mana_change_mtu() recovery, and internal error handling\nin mana_alloc_queues() can subsequently call into functions that\ndereference these pointers without NULL checks:\n\n- mana_chn_setxdp() dereferences apc-\u003erxqs[0], causing a NULL pointer\n  dereference panic (CR2: 0000000000000000 at mana_chn_setxdp+0x26).\n- mana_destroy_vport() iterates apc-\u003erxqs without a NULL check.\n- mana_fence_rqs() iterates apc-\u003erxqs without a NULL check.\n- mana_dealloc_queues() iterates apc-\u003etx_qp without a NULL check.\n\nAdd NULL guards for apc-\u003erxqs in mana_fence_rqs(),\nmana_destroy_vport(), and before the mana_chn_setxdp() call. Add a\nNULL guard for apc-\u003etx_qp in mana_dealloc_queues() to skip TX queue\ndraining when TX queues were never allocated or already freed."
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