# 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-2026-97506"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:04:55.504Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:59:03.858Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97506"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97506.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97506"
title: "crypto: ixp4xx - fix buffer chain unwind on allocation failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: ixp4xx - fix buffer chain unwind on allocation failure\n\nchainup_buffers() builds a linked list of buffer descriptors for a\nscatterlist. If dma_pool_alloc() fails while constructing the list, the\ncurrent code sets buf to NULL and later dereferences it unconditionally\nat the end of the function:\n\n  buf-\u003enext = NULL;\n  buf-\u003ephys_next = 0;\n\nThis can lead to a null-pointer dereference on allocation failure.\n\nIf the failure happens after part of the descriptor chain has already\nbeen allocated and DMA-mapped, the partially constructed chain also\nneeds to be released.\n\nFix this by terminating the partially constructed chain on allocation\nfailure and letting the callers unwind it via their existing cleanup\npaths. Also fix ablk_perform() to preserve the hook pointers before\nchecking for failure, so partially built chains can be freed correctly."
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