CVE-2026-98913

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: thunderx: fix PTP device ref leak in nicvf_probe() cavium_ptp_get() acquires a reference to the PTP PCI device through pci_get_device(). If any initialization step fails after cavium_ptp_get(), the PTP PCI device reference is leaked. Add a common error path to release the PTP reference before returning from probe failures.

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 6% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2026-10-23

Modified

2026-10-26

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-26

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bcf59eefb9f00a2b1d426b639ee49c305a80695
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a2eedb172e777f2c8608395eec42250fb355dae
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/916d74343cd60ef7c3d433bd417d26ba31642c09
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8bc44a1d86d5b432ec7f5a6f30b4e719a047374
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df3d586ecc580623edadec71a6ffdf4c79e2a8e8

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