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    "id": "CVE-2026-72017",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72017",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-08-15T05:51:44.698Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-08-23T12:46:26.593Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z",
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      "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"
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      "title": "net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close\n\nThe MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that\nhave not yet been marked as completed. They live in queue->tx_skb\nwhich gets freed without remorse nor checking.\n\nmacb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only close will\ntrigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and macb_alloc_consistent()\nfailure cases, queues' tx_skb just got allocated and are empty.",
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