CVE-2026-98574

Status: ReceivedUnscored—

Severity—Unscored

Exploitation probability0.20 %higher than 9% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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

net: bcmgenet: stop Tx NAPI before disabling the queues

bcmgenet_netif_stop() and the Wake-on-LAN branch of bcmgenet_suspend() both disable the Tx queues first and stop Tx NAPI several steps later. A completion in flight calls netif_tx_wake_queue() in between, and nothing stops the queue again, so a transmit can reach the rings after they have been freed.

Close is safe because dev_deactivate_many() stops the qdisc first. bcmgenet_suspend() does not, so stop Tx NAPI before the queues on both paths.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report

KASAN on a Raspberry Pi CM4, driven from an MTU change because suspend
freezes user space before the callback runs:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bcmgenet_xmit+0x17f8/0x2258
  Write of size 8 at addr ffffff8055844a68 by task ksoftirqd/0/14
   bcmgenet_xmit+0x17f8/0x2258
   dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13c/0x588
   sch_direct_xmit+0x108/0x340
   __dev_queue_xmit+0x1190/0x3848

CVSS

NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 9
Score date: 10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Linux — Linux Kernel^AI

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