# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97982"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:18.304Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:11:49.378Z"
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-2026-97982"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97982.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97982"
title: "net: ethernet: cortina: Fix budget accounting"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: cortina: Fix budget accounting\n\nThe gmac_rx() function returns the remaining NAPI budget, but its\ncaller treats the return value as the number of packets received. An\nidle poll therefore reports a full budget and remains scheduled.\n\nReturn the number of received packets instead. Preserve the existing\nfree queue refill accounting by adding that count directly; continuing\nto subtract it from the budget would invert the refill behavior."
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