# 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-2026-98272"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:33.974Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:44.017Z"
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-2026-98272"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98272.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98272"
title: "net: mvpp2: prevent buffer overflow in page_pool allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: mvpp2: prevent buffer overflow in page_pool allocation\n\nThe per‑processor buffering scheme is supported only if the\nnumber of pools (nrxqs * 2) does not exceed MVPP2_BM_MAX_POOLS (8).\nThis is already checked in mvpp2_probe() during the initial\nactivation of percpu_pools.\n\nHowever, mvpp2_change_mtu() may later call\nmvpp2_bm_switch_buffers(priv, true) without this check, which can\nlead to an out-of-bounds access in the priv-\u003epage_pool array in\nmvpp2_bm_init(). The array is sized to hold MVPP2_PORT_MAX_RXQ\nentries, and mvpp2_get_nrxqs() may return exactly that value. The\nper-CPU scheme then doubles it to nrxqs * 2, exceeding the array\nbounds.\n\nCheck that the hardware version is MVPP22 or newer and that the\nnumber of pools (nrxqs * 2) does not exceed MVPP2_BM_MAX_POOLS\nbefore switching to per-CPU mode.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE."
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