CVE-2026-98895

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mlx5 network driver. When destroying a hardware steering table configured with a default miss table, the driver fails to remove the entry from the associated miss table tracking list, leaving behind an invalid pointer. A local privileged user could exploit this vulnerability during table cleanup to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a system crash.

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