net: ethernet: cortina: Fix budget accounting
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: cortina: Fix budget accounting The gmac_rx() function returns the remaining NAPI budget, but its caller treats the return value as the number of packets received. An idle poll therefore reports a full budget and remains scheduled. Return the number of received packets instead. Preserve the existing free queue refill accounting by adding that count directly; continuing to subtract it from the budget would invert the refill behavior.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.271, 5.15.222, 6.1.189, 6.6.158, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-97982
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f9c6-x48g-gfm4
- 2026-10-03 Fix available: Linux/Linux@4ca84049c6428c665ef7c903a32a99ed0f1e01e9, Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected] +5 · CNA
- 2026-10-03 4 new references · CNA
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3deb54d9507c2d7f05efd896142095eef5b7d85
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6e5732b90d0fc25fd3d9961ff61e660297d7608
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa339ac334d4e51f43af9d2901e6faf11ffd981e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ca84049c6428c665ef7c903a32a99ed0f1e01e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/631c47e2e1154f2741c555b91df1b8cb99294c6a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ef8eaef5806c84db2334111d6f299c246a592bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94e06e12a376710587cfeea481b65e7c49747003
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0de06d0da78a3db53de65dfd7452cc6d111f703
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Sources
- CVE-2026-97982 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-97982 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f9c6-x48g-gfm4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-97982 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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