# 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-2026-72339"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:46.480Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:18.961Z"
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-2026-72339"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72339.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72339"
title: "qede: fix off-by-one in BD ring consumption on build_skb failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nqede: fix off-by-one in BD ring consumption on build_skb failure\n\nqede_rx_build_skb() and qede_tpa_rx_build_skb() do not check for a\nNULL return from qede_build_skb(). When it returns NULL under memory\npressure, the functions still consume a BD from the ring before\nreturning NULL. The callers then recycle additional BDs, resulting in\none extra BD being consumed (off-by-one). This desynchronizes the BD\nring, which can corrupt DMA page reference counts and lead to SLUB\nfreelist corruption.\n\nCommit 4e910dbe3650 (\"qede: confirm skb is allocated before using\")\nadded a NULL check inside qede_build_skb() to prevent a NULL pointer\ndereference, but did not address the missing NULL checks in the\ncallers, making this off-by-one reachable.\n\nFix this by adding NULL checks for the return value of\nqede_build_skb() in both qede_rx_build_skb() and\nqede_tpa_rx_build_skb(), returning NULL immediately before any BD ring\nmanipulation."
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