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Advisory severityMedium5.5Vendor: LowRed Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-53088] fix off-by-one in bcmgenet_put_txcb

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-53088 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat package: kernel-rt.

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmgenet: fix off-by-one in bcmgenet_put_txcb The write_ptr points to the next open tx_cb. We want to return the tx_cb that gets rewinded, so we must rewind the pointer first then return the tx_cb that it points to.

That way the txcb can be correctly cleaned up. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's bcmgenet network driver.

An off-by-one error in the `bcmgenet_put_txcb` function, related to the `write_ptr` handling for transmit control blocks (tx_cb), could lead to incorrect cleanup of these blocks. This issue may result in system instability or unexpected behavior.

Red Hat severity: Low — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-193.

Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel-rt.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 4 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

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Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 4 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation

The source record does not include mitigation steps. That does not mean no fix exists. Read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 4 days ago·verify at source

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