# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98015"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:37.724Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:20.637Z"
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-2026-98015"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98015.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98015"
title: "net/mlx5: E-Switch: fix use-after-free in mlx5_eswitch_termtbl_put"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: E-Switch: fix use-after-free in mlx5_eswitch_termtbl_put\n\nIn mlx5_eswitch_termtbl_put(), the zero-ref cleanup check reads\ntt-\u003eref_count after termtbl_mutex has been released.  Two concurrent\ncallers on the same mlx5_termtbl_handle race: one decrements ref_count\nto zero, removes the hash entry, and calls kfree(tt) while the other\nhas already dropped the mutex and is about to evaluate\nif (!tt-\u003eref_count), producing a use-after-free.\n\nFix this by capturing the result of the decrement into a stack-local\nlast variable before dropping the mutex.  The cleanup decision is now\nmade entirely under termtbl_mutex, and tt is not touched after\nkfree."
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