{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97966 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-97966 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 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-2026-97966 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-97966 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 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-2026-97966 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-2026-97966/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97966/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-97966","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97966/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-97966","record":{"aliases":["AZL-104250","BELL-CVE-2026-97966","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97966","GHSA-m5mf-8q2j-8cgp","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-97966"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A flaw in the Linux kernel octeontx2-pf driver allows stale scheduler topology settings to persist, potentially affecting network traffic scheduling for other users.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"other"},"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\nocteontx2-pf: reset HTB scheduler topology before freeing queues\n\nHTB offload programs NIX_AF_TLxX_TOPOLOGY on QoS-allocated scheduler\nqueues via otx2_qos_txschq_set_parent_topology(), but teardown freed\nthose queues without clearing TOPOLOGY.  The AF only restores PARENT and\nSCHEDULE on free, so PRIO_ANCHOR/RR_PRIO settings can survive in the\nshared scheduler pool and affect later allocations.\n\nAdd otx2_qos_reset_schq_topology() and otx2_qos_free_hw_schq() to zero\nTL4 through TL2 TOPOLOGY before each schq is returned to the AF during\nhierarchy teardown and cfg rollback.  Skip the aggregation level (TL1):\nit is a per-tx-link queue shared by the PF, default Tx hierarchy and VFs,\nand is not freed back to the AF by nix_txschq_free_one().","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":"octeontx2-pf: reset HTB scheduler topology before freeing queues","id":"CVE-2026-97966","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"other","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"hwmon: (corsair-cpro) Remove debugfs entries when probe fails","id":"CVE-2026-97967"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"vxlan: initialize _md in vxlan_xmit_one()","id":"CVE-2026-97965"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-09-25","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 flaw in the Linux kernel octeontx2-pf driver allows stale scheduler topology settings to persist, potentially affecting network traffic scheduling for other users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97966/"}