CVE-2026-72499

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

8.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
8.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/bnxt_re: Free CQ toggle page after firmware teardown

Free the toggle page only after firmware teardown completes so that an NQ interrupt arriving during bnxt_qplib_destroy_cq() won’t write the toggle value to an already-freed page. Move free_page() after bnxt_qplib_destroy_cq.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 4.19.0 (+3 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Ubuntu 26.04 Released
2 kernels
  • 7.0.0-31.31
  • 7.0.0-34.34