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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98908"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T11:54:46.243Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T11:54:46.243Z"
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-2026-98908"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98908.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98908"
title: "net: microchip: sparx5: clean up PSFP resources on flower setup failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: microchip: sparx5: clean up PSFP resources on flower setup failure\n\nsparx5_tc_flower_psfp_setup() allocates PSFP stream gate, flow meter and\nstream filter resources before adding VCAP actions. If a later step\nfails, the resources allocated earlier in the function are not unwound.\n\nAdd error paths to release the stream filter, flow meter and stream gate\nwhen setup fails after they have been acquired.\n\nAlso make sparx5_psfp_fm_add() return the acquired flow-meter id before\nthe existing-flow-meter early return. When an existing flow meter is\nreused, sparx5_psfp_fm_get() increments its pool reference count, but the\ncaller previously kept psfp_fmid as 0. If a later setup step failed, the\nerror path could try to delete flow-meter id 0 instead of the reused flow\nmeter, leaving the incremented reference behind."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7625d408f7f0535c2b0f05d53231d6496acd48b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a46ea3f7ee0d3ad3d5e92043232b293be2a305d3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"640c1bd8d359ad34817f5afec0872985e87b49ec"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46e50367338702abe3df661df7795bdada40fef7"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.111"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.53"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"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","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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