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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98014" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:37.131Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:19.664Z" 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-2026-98014" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98014.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98014" title: "net/mlx5: E-Switch, prevent mc_list repopulation during vport disable" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: E-Switch, prevent mc_list repopulation during vport disable\n\nIn mlx5_esw_vport_disable(), move esw_apply_vport_rx_mode() ahead\nof esw_vport_change_handle_locked() so vport-\u003eallmulti_rule is\nNULL before the change handler observes it.\n\nDuring FW-fatal recovery the disable runs while dev-\u003estate ==\nINTERNAL_ERROR. The promisc query inside esw_update_vport_rx_mode()\nfails and returns early, leaving vport-\u003eallmulti_rule intact, so\nesw_update_vport_mc_promisc() runs and adds MLX5_ACTION_ADD entries\nto vport-\u003emc_list whose flow rules are then installed in the FDB\nby esw_add_mc_addr(). esw_destroy_legacy_table() tears down the\nFDB with those refs still held, corrupting the sub-tree and\nleaving dangling flow_rule pointers in vport-\u003emc_list.\n\nTwo-stage failure on `echo 1 \u003e /sys/bus/pci/devices/\u003cbdf\u003e/reset`:\n\n refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n tree_put_node+0xef/0x110 [mlx5_core]\n clean_tree+0x44/0xd0 [mlx5_core] (x5)\n mlx5_fs_core_cleanup+0x57/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_unload+0x65/0xd0 [mlx5_core]\n ... mlx5_health_try_recover\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000003000055\n down_write+0x1c/0x60\n mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x33/0x1f0 [mlx5_core]\n esw_del_mc_addr+0x7b/0x170 [mlx5_core]\n esw_apply_vport_addr_list+0x56/0xf0 [mlx5_core]\n esw_vport_change_handle_locked+0x28b/0x310 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_esw_vport_enable+0x270/0x4a0 [mlx5_core]\n ... mlx5_load ... mlx5_health_try_recover\n\nesw_apply_vport_rx_mode(false, false) clears vport-\u003eallmulti_rule\nvia its local state machine even when the FW del fails. With the\nrule NULL the !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(allmulti_rule) gate in the change\nhandler closes, no rules are installed during disable, and the\nreload starts with a clean mc_list." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4df1f2d36bdc9a368650bf14b9097c555e95f71d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"413e04adcc1fd263cf02b1b83b4a0dbdc66bcee9"},{"version":"63546395a0e6ac264f78f65218086ce6014b4494","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2196f9d3358b00fcb28835a5fde14071f51ecb96"},{"version":"922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a2b87dfceccf9065157a14a599d395c2b6281b8"},{"version":"922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69904608e25e8ba58111aadd9210892cf3876201"},{"version":"922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72cfcb79026cffb6490f5044153a841d360b0cfc"},{"version":"922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"668e050429c7ca688cf4e7112f97f0cd269d446b"},{"version":"922f56e9a795d6f3dd72d3428ebdd7ee040fa855","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0c6f4ba8a37688f7b4d4044898d88f0450d44c2"},{"version":"18cead61e437f4c7898acca0a5f3df12f801d97f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6f5780536181d1d0d09a11a1bc92f22e143447e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.105","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.222"},{"version":"6.1.22","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.189"},{"version":"5.10.177","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"6.2.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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