{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-80988 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-80988 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 11 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-80988 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-80988 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 11 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-80988 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80988/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80988/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-80988","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80988/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-80988","record":{"aliases":["AZL-100550","BELL-CVE-2026-80988","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-80988","GHSA-hx33-h33p-95h8","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-80988"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel NTB driver","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel NTB transport driver allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting memory when transmitting packets while the link is down.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nNTB: ntb_transport: Fail TX enqueue when the QP link is down\n\nCommit f195a1a6fe41 (\"ntb: Drop packets when qp link is down\") meant to\nmake ntb_transport_tx_enqueue() drop packets submitted while the QP link\nis down, but it only returns 0 without consuming the packet. Zero means\nsuccess by this function's contract, so ntb_netdev reports NETDEV_TX_OK\nand forgets the skb: nothing queued it, nothing frees it, and it leaks,\none skb for every transmit racing a link-down.\n\nReturn -ENOLINK instead, restoring the contract that a non-zero return\nleaves the buffer owned by the caller. With the preceding patch,\nntb_netdev frees the skb on non-retryable enqueue failures and returns\nNETDEV_TX_OK, so a packet racing with link-down is dropped without leaking\nor entering a busy retry loop.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"NTB: ntb_transport: Fail TX enqueue when the QP link is down","id":"CVE-2026-80988","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"net: thunderbolt: Mark the connection down when bringing it up fails","id":"CVE-2026-80989"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"NTB: ntb_transport: Reject oversized TX buffers","id":"CVE-2026-80987"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-09-11","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel NTB transport driver allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting memory when transmitting packets while the link is down.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-80988/"}