# 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-2026-97572"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:56.826Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:34.905Z"
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-2026-97572"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97572.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97572"
title: "bnxt_en: Propagate RX ring init failures in bnxt_init_nic()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: Propagate RX ring init failures in bnxt_init_nic()\n\nbnxt_init_rx_rings() returns an error when bnxt_alloc_one_rx_ring()\nfails, but bnxt_init_nic() discards that return value and calls\nbnxt_init_chip(), which enables TPA.\n\nIf an allocation fails, this could leave rxr-\u003erx_tpa[] partially zeroed\nand TPA would be enabled over an array with zeroed entries. This would\nlead to a zeroed DMA address being handed out if the agg_idx is\ntranslated to a SW index at a zeroed entry.\n\nFix this by propagating the error out of bnxt_init_nic(). Both callers\nalready check its return value and unwind with bnxt_free_skbs() and\nbnxt_free_mem(), which tolerate a partially initialized RX ring."
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