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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89582"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:48.336Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:49:15.111Z"
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-2026-89582"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89582.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89582"
title: "bnx2x: fix double free in bnx2x_init_firmware() error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnx2x: fix double free in bnx2x_init_firmware() error path\n\nbnx2x_init_firmware() frees bp-\u003einit_ops, bp-\u003einit_data and\nbp-\u003einit_ops_offsets in its error path without setting them to NULL.\nThe cleanup function bnx2x_release_firmware() frees the same three\npointers unconditionally, so if init_firmware fails and\nrelease_firmware is later called (e.g. from __bnx2x_remove or through\nthe function state machine), all three are freed a second time.\n\nSet each pointer to NULL after kfree() in the error path so that the\nsubsequent kfree(NULL) in bnx2x_release_firmware() is a safe no-op."
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