# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64122"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:20.446Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:39:28.664Z"
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-2026-64122"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64122.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64122"
title: "net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover\n\nmlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover() accesses sq-\u003enetdev after\nmlx5e_safe_reopen_channels() has torn down and freed the channel (and\nits embedded SQs). Replace the three sq-\u003enetdev references with\npriv-\u003enetdev which is safe because priv outlives channel teardown.\n\nThe netdev_err() call already used priv-\u003enetdev for this reason; make\nthe trylock/unlock and health_channel_eq_recover calls consistent.\n\nThis fixes the following KASAN splat:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover+0x1dd/0x360 [mlx5_core]\n  Read of size 8 at addr ffff889860ed0b28 by task kworker/u113:2/5277\n\n  Call Trace:\n   mlx5e_tx_reporter_timeout_recover+0x1dd/0x360 [mlx5_core]\n   devlink_health_reporter_recover+0xa2/0x150\n   devlink_health_report+0x254/0x7c0\n   mlx5e_reporter_tx_timeout+0x297/0x380 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5e_tx_timeout_work+0x109/0x170 [mlx5_core]\n   process_one_work+0x677/0xf20\n   worker_thread+0x51f/0xd90\n   kthread+0x3a5/0x810\n   ret_from_fork+0x208/0x400\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4329514c61abefe4961541b128c549b017bab5ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1604a2d68414aa4cc34faac0b7faa9c14455e8d3"},{"version":"83ac0304a2d77519dae1e54c9713cbe1aedf19c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"152295aa7dc2c5e046606f7dadc84fce41136446"},{"version":"83ac0304a2d77519dae1e54c9713cbe1aedf19c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d260c5d2d89eb2c8c528d54b576b3aae3e20231"},{"version":"63f9d5fb4d8040077df801ca3270e2f02d55e0d9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.18.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.34"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"6.18.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.11","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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