# 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-2026-72312"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:27.817Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:16.851Z"
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-2026-72312"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72312.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72312"
title: "octeontx2-af: fix VF bringup affecting PF promiscuous state"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nocteontx2-af: fix VF bringup affecting PF promiscuous state\n\nMbox handling of nix_set_rx_mode for a VF with promiscuous and\nall_multi flags set to false causes deletion of the PF's promiscuous\nand allmulti MCAM rules. This occurs because the APIs that\nenable/disable these rules operate only on the PF, even when the\nmbox request is made via a VF interface.\n\nGuard both rvu_npc_enable_allmulti_entry() and\nrvu_npc_enable_promisc_entry() disable paths with an is_vf() check so\nthat a VF bringing up or tearing down its interface cannot inadvertently\nclear the PF's MCAM rules."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"967db3529ecac305d230aa4e60abddf6ab63543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"daa2451640a3e0727fd598f5c2ccb8bb4d5a8b9c"},{"version":"967db3529ecac305d230aa4e60abddf6ab63543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"212c59e5e416859579272288fd325148fc316109"},{"version":"967db3529ecac305d230aa4e60abddf6ab63543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53e17d9ed779ad25870abb9c31bc294c71a2278c"},{"version":"967db3529ecac305d230aa4e60abddf6ab63543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3de77d2f34c2bc2acaedabc2c5e0a561b85c283a"},{"version":"967db3529ecac305d230aa4e60abddf6ab63543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cf83432e0561aef6d7ec2664909d12d0ff0ffc1"},{"version":"967db3529ecac305d230aa4e60abddf6ab63543a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fabb881df322da25442f98d23f5fa371e3c78ec4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","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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