CVE-2026-53087

net: bcmgenet: fix leaking free_bds

High · published June 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: bcmgenet: fix leaking free_bds

While reclaiming the tx queue we fast forward the write pointer to

drop any data in flight. These dropped frames are not added back

to the pool of free bds. We also need to tell the netdev that we

are dropping said data.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00684 · 52.0th percentile
Published
2026-06-24T16:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUN 16:30Z
    net: bcmgenet: fix leaking free_bds
    cvelistv5