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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89511" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:56.640Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:02.658Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89511" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89511.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89511" title: "qede: Fix NULL pointer dereference in TPA fragment processing" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nqede: Fix NULL pointer dereference in TPA fragment processing\n\nUnder memory pressure, the qede driver encounters NULL pointer\ndereferences when processing TPA continuation fragments.\n\nCommit 8a8633978b84 (\"qede: Add build_skb() support.\") accidentally\ndropped the assignment of tpa_info-\u003ebuffer.data in qede_tpa_start().\n\nWhen memory pressure causes an SKB allocation failure in qede_tpa_start(),\nthe driver sets tpa_start_fail = true and attempts to recycle the physical\npage later in qede_tpa_end() via qede_reuse_page(). However, because\nbuffer.data was left uninitialized (NULL), qede_reuse_page() pushes a\n\"ghost\" BD (valid DMA mapping but NULL data pointer) back into the\nactive Rx ring.\n\nThe next time the hardware uses this ring slot, it passes a NULL page\nto qede_fill_frag_skb(), causing a kernel panic.\n\nExample crash from production system:\n BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x8\n RIP: qede_fill_frag_skb+0x96/0x430 [qede]\n Call Trace:\n qede_rx_int+0xb06/0x1de0\n qede_poll+0x2f4/0x6c0\n __napi_poll+0x2d/0x130\n\nFix the root cause by restoring the tpa_info-\u003ebuffer.data assignment\nin qede_tpa_start(), ensuring valid pages are correctly tracked and\nrecycled. Additionally, update the stale comment for\nstruct qede_agg_info::buffer to reflect its current usage." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2214e2793154b745436e46c6a9a7985d9b3781d"},{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd8bc0a9d87d2b048711edd17ba7286432edd285"},{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa7c9bd2c4a8de167e2fb32968ca4d91dd774375"},{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5e1fdc126ab337d601d1a00cc4b47910679d005"},{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f911e208b3ca2c76d9f2bbba1f54b9403568c10"},{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a952fb1b20d83e83ca852773e6188511f7d2191"},{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f5c8619ccbd70102642120c4c6fda1c048a555fd"},{"version":"8a8633978b842c88fbcfe00d4e5dde96048f630e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06aa3d26327f24edd039ff249672fdf6f2ba5695"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"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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