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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80988" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:46.228Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:12.548Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-80988" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80988.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80988" title: "NTB: ntb_transport: Fail TX enqueue when the QP link is down" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNTB: ntb_transport: Fail TX enqueue when the QP link is down\n\nCommit f195a1a6fe41 (\"ntb: Drop packets when qp link is down\") meant to\nmake ntb_transport_tx_enqueue() drop packets submitted while the QP link\nis down, but it only returns 0 without consuming the packet. Zero means\nsuccess by this function's contract, so ntb_netdev reports NETDEV_TX_OK\nand forgets the skb: nothing queued it, nothing frees it, and it leaks,\none skb for every transmit racing a link-down.\n\nReturn -ENOLINK instead, restoring the contract that a non-zero return\nleaves the buffer owned by the caller. With the preceding patch,\nntb_netdev frees the skb on non-retryable enqueue failures and returns\nNETDEV_TX_OK, so a packet racing with link-down is dropped without leaking\nor entering a busy retry loop." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3cfdc448e8bfa8a7eaa5af87f357330566124b78","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76c9ccc0c6bebfc74c0e727eda67687f5103ab06"},{"version":"bfa051f650a7708183bd86901ca4645dcf88c486","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96d792c65b9d5f7f9dd86a1004315db59e450c07"},{"version":"4f4af6b8b7a23fa37decaf43b55403e6bfd8e219","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45cc11035165918dd1f81796ea98f81ece20d361"},{"version":"f195a1a6fe416882984f8bd6c61afc1383171860","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6cc541fab01099fd8efadfa4f13afdf118bf536"},{"version":"f195a1a6fe416882984f8bd6c61afc1383171860","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5eca0d899a3be661a7e2caaaa7467a6fa15d756c"},{"version":"f195a1a6fe416882984f8bd6c61afc1383171860","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"894e136b432da75c0352c80299807a5c4b04f167"},{"version":"f195a1a6fe416882984f8bd6c61afc1383171860","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89177732fe1653bbfef10cf5d99bf20cf57762c2"},{"version":"f195a1a6fe416882984f8bd6c61afc1383171860","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"873ce713fef5dde0939220f04f3484ec86a16fba"},{"version":"aa6d6ed213b62cbdb09ea32abbfa085dd987a0c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a8986a61ebee0b54c5d648444fbae09bd1c6dcd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"94491412a2afc8a5aea4c5b455aed86d3486f0b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c2cd5d993f57f819d46fe62387d3cc34d8468e60","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"449b1978d4e50b14b2a4de3a26d0b074593926a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.195","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.270"},{"version":"5.15.132","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.221"},{"version":"6.1.53","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.188"},{"version":"4.14.326","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.295","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.257","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.4.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.5.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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