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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98567" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:33.721Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:52.909Z" 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-2026-98567" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98567.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98567" title: "net: xps: reject an out of range traffic class" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: xps: reject an out of range traffic class\n\nOnly the entries below dev-\u003enum_tc are valid in dev-\u003etc_to_txq[], and\ndev-\u003eprio_tc_map[] may only name classes below it. netdev_set_num_tc()\nlowers dev-\u003enum_tc without touching either array.\n\nnetdev_txq_to_tc() walks all TC_MAX_QUEUE slots and\nnetdev_get_prio_tc_map() returns the entry as it stands, so a leftover\nentry is handed out as a traffic class \u003e= dev-\u003enum_tc. Taking that\nclass from netdev_txq_to_tc(), __netif_set_xps_queue() rejects only a\nnegative one and indexes an XPS map sized for dev-\u003enum_tc classes:\n\n\ttci = j * num_tc + tc;\n\tRCU_INIT_POINTER(new_dev_maps-\u003eattr_map[tci], map);\n\nattr_map[] holds nr_ids * num_tc entries and j runs over the ids named\nin the mask, so a class that is not below num_tc pushes tci past the end\nof the map for the last ids and the store overruns it.\n\nAny caller that lowers num_tc leaves such entries behind, and\nmqprio_destroy() tears down with netdev_set_num_tc(dev, 0) rather than\nnetdev_reset_tc(). After mqprio with 8 classes then 1, tc_to_txq[1..7]\nstill describe txq 1..7. The splat is from an XPS write to txq 2 on a\nveth with 8 rx queues: attr_map[] has 8 * 1 entries, tci = j + 2, and\nj == 6 stores one past the end of the 88-byte map:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __netif_set_xps_queue (net/core/dev.c:2954)\n Write of size 8 at addr ffff88813016bc58 by task xps_oob/634\n __netif_set_xps_queue (net/core/dev.c:2954)\n xps_rxqs_store (net/core/net-sysfs.c:1880)\n netdev_queue_attr_store (net/core/net-sysfs.c:1390)\n Allocated by task 634:\n __kmalloc_noprof (mm/slub.c:5439)\n __netif_set_xps_queue (net/core/dev.c:2937)\n The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n allocated 88-byte region [ffff88813016bc00, ffff88813016bc58)\n\nReject a class the map has no room for." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"967e10f40a0c6732db299cbe001df0e859196055"},{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cb8e40525a72c9f1e1cf94c68c172b3b9bbdc81"},{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ea8f643053f33622f9116e4e1db58306ece45e3"},{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e841723ba482d41ecbf90241c756a16cdfea949"},{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eff227a3cb4d0089fbb85c73480bf8abf2e5ae7f"},{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cc1c3977acbffc417fb5b57699d1df3dcffb5fd"},{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"930318290d8509e864c015fe6c9239470b3c579c"},{"version":"184c449f91fef521042970cca46bd5cdfc0e3a37","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4da3b7b8b50f3e2fde54a4c18a82a8e3f6223910"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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