# octeontx2-af: fix cn20k mailbox lifetime on repeated rvu_mbox_init()

CVE record · `CVE-2026-90079`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-90079`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 17 Sept 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 17 Sept 2026, 16:05 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `e53ee4acb220acab6832669334279367b0206af6 to before c08314f91782983d67af0807ed1360e404ac4a8b` (git)
  - affected: `e53ee4acb220acab6832669334279367b0206af6 to before a0fcbea79f034f49bdd44915f28938922023458d` (git)
  - affected: `e53ee4acb220acab6832669334279367b0206af6 to before 3b11a77f69980932c3924054d66e565c9a135747` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `6.17`
  - unaffected: `before 6.17` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.18.57 to 6.18.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.2.6 to 7.2.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.3 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 17 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-90079](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90079)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-90079](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-90079)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c08314f91782983d67af0807ed1360e404ac4a8b>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0fcbea79f034f49bdd44915f28938922023458d>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b11a77f69980932c3924054d66e565c9a135747>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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