# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68301"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:35.155Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:32:53.463Z"
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-2026-68301"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68301.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68301"
title: "net: hsr: fix memory leak on slave unregistration by removing synced VLANs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: hsr: fix memory leak on slave unregistration by removing synced VLANs\n\nWhen an HSR master device is brought UP, it auto-adds VLAN 0 via\nvlan_vid0_add(), which propagates VID 0 to its slave devices (slave A and B).\n\nIf a slave device is later unregistered while HSR is active (e.g., during\nnetns cleanup or interface destruction), hsr_del_port() is called to\ndetach the slave port from the HSR master. However, hsr_del_port() currently\ndoes not delete the VLAN IDs that were synced to the slave device by HSR.\n\nAs a result, the slave device retains a refcount on VID 0 (and any other\nsynced VLANs). When the slave device is destroyed, its vlan_info /\nvlan_vid_info structure remains allocated, leading to a memory leak.\n\nFix this by calling vlan_vids_del_by_dev(port-\u003edev, master-\u003edev) in\nhsr_del_port() before unlinking slave A or slave B ports, matching the\npropagation logic in hsr_ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid() / hsr_ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid()\nand the cleanup behavior in bonding and team drivers."
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