# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90417"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:09:42.342Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:51:33.618Z"
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-2026-90417"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90417.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90417"
title: "RDMA/cxgb4: Fix dereg_skb leak and double free in write_tpt_entry()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/cxgb4: Fix dereg_skb leak and double free in write_tpt_entry()\n\nWhen the device is in the fatal error state, write_tpt_entry() returns -EIO\nbefore handing the caller's preallocated skb to the transmit path; its\nallocation-failure returns do the same. c4iw_dereg_mr() ignores the error\nand frees mhp, leaking mhp-\u003edereg_skb. c4iw_get_dma_mr() instead frees the\nskb a second time after dereg_mem() already consumed it, a double free.\n\nMake write_tpt_entry() the sole owner of a non-NULL skb, freeing it on\nevery return preceding handoff to c4iw_ofld_send(): fatal error, tpt and\nstag allocation failure. c4iw_ofld_send() consumes the skb on success and\nerror alike, so drop the redundant kfree_skb() in c4iw_get_dma_mr() after\ndereg_mem()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0f8ab0b6e91b4d5302ceee5ec12ce54d81297635","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68c1d2c085f205e8a5338bc3d3304f897deca4d9"},{"version":"0f8ab0b6e91b4d5302ceee5ec12ce54d81297635","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"379cf06e6fe34af980064c6ccaf15d8e26ec4a42"},{"version":"0f8ab0b6e91b4d5302ceee5ec12ce54d81297635","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fcd26f4680143e9ec477069530548dbe20fce6f"},{"version":"0f8ab0b6e91b4d5302ceee5ec12ce54d81297635","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b15fc9bc117fb6597fa1c2cc30284aafe71101c"},{"version":"0f8ab0b6e91b4d5302ceee5ec12ce54d81297635","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"373f3716a2de7adc739269ebb4d87e5bf4dc180c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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