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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68332"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:08.525Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:03:30.927Z"
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-2026-68332"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68332.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68332"
title: "net: airoha: Fix potential use-after-free in airoha_ppe_deinit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: airoha: Fix potential use-after-free in airoha_ppe_deinit()\n\nairoha_ppe_deinit() replaces the NPU pointer with NULL via\nrcu_replace_pointer() but does not wait for existing RCU readers\nto exit before calling ppe_deinit() and airoha_npu_put(). This can\ncause a use-after-free if a reader in an RCU read-side critical\nsection still holds a reference to the NPU when it is freed.\n\nThe init path (airoha_ppe_init) already calls synchronize_rcu()\nafter rcu_assign_pointer(), but the deinit path introduced in\ncommit 6abcf751bc08 (\"net: airoha: Fix schedule while atomic in\nairoha_ppe_deinit()\") omitted the matching barrier when switching\nfrom rcu_read_lock()/rcu_dereference() to rcu_replace_pointer().\n\nAdd synchronize_rcu() before ppe_deinit() to ensure all existing\nRCU readers have completed before the NPU resources are released."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"72f93dc6d1a6b157e0c3d247085c74935893cca0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46e3bed4b071095ecc9384a7b349e1908728531f"},{"version":"6abcf751bc084804a9e5b3051442e8a2ce67f48a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad28c4f9e0eae4993cb3fde3e7cea330acd8b97c"},{"version":"6abcf751bc084804a9e5b3051442e8a2ce67f48a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2484568a335cd7bda951c75b3a7d95ea36161ae7"},{"version":"6.18.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.42"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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