# 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-2026-68317"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:52.185Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:03:14.295Z"
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-2026-68317"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68317.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68317"
title: "pds_core: fix auxiliary device add/del races"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npds_core: fix auxiliary device add/del races\n\nTwo paths add or delete the same slot (pf-\u003evfs[vf_id].padev): a VF's\npdsc_reset_done() and the PF's devlink enable_vnet/disable_vnet handler.\nThey serialize on config_lock, but neither guards the slot under it\ncorrectly.\n\nadd() registers and stores a new auxiliary device without first checking\nthe slot, so a second add of an already-populated slot leaks the first\ndevice. del() makes that check outside config_lock, so two concurrent\ndels can both pass it; the first clears the slot, and the second\ndereferences a NULL pointer.\n\nCheck and update the slot under config_lock in both paths."
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