CVE-2026-23117

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2026-02-14 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path devlink-reload results in ice_init_hw failed error, and then removing the ice driver causes a NULL pointer dereference. [ +0.102213] ice 0000:ca:00.0: ice_init_hw failed: -16 ... [ +0.000001] Call Trace: [ +0.000003] <TASK> [ +0.000006] ice_unload+0x8f/0x100 [ice] [ +0.000081] ice_remove+0xba/0x300 [ice] Commit 1390b8b3d2be ("ice: remove duplicate call to ice_deinit_hw() on error paths") removed ice_deinit_hw() from ice_deinit_dev(). As a result ice_devlink_reinit_down() no longer calls ice_deinit_hw(), but ice_devlink_reinit_up() still calls ice_init_hw(). Since the control queues are not uninitialized, ice_init_hw() fails with -EBUSY. Add ice_deinit_hw() to ice_devlink_reinit_down() to correspond with ice_init_hw() in ice_devlink_reinit_up().

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (10)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux c91eee346089e4d287d5a111719e57cac605275e < a3d99e2fbf01446d31a0d0dfc46444e915a1f6d4
Linux Linux 1390b8b3d2bef9bfbb852fc735430798bfca36e7 < 42fb5f3deb582cb96440e4683745017dbabb83d6
Linux Linux 6.18.2 < 6.18.8
linux linux_kernel 6.18.2 – 6.18.8
linux linux_kernel 6.19
linux linux_kernel 6.19
linux linux_kernel 6.19
linux linux_kernel 6.19
linux linux_kernel 6.19
linux linux_kernel 6.19

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001190
Percentile 1.8%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00119
2026-11-13
0.00119
2026-11-12
0.00119
2026-11-10
0.00119
2026-11-09
0.00116
2026-11-08
0.00116
2026-11-07
0.00116
2026-11-06
0.00116
2026-11-05
0.00116

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