{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23353","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  ice: fix crash in ethtool offline loopback test  Since the conversion of ice to page pool, the ethtool loopback test crashes:   BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000c  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page  PGD 1100f1067 P4D 0  Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI  CPU: 23 UID: 0 PID: 5904 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-0.rc7.260128g1f97d9dcf5364.49.eln154.x86_64 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)  Hardware name: [...]  RIP: 0010:ice_alloc_rx_bufs+0x1cd/0x310 [ice]  Code: 83 6c 24 30 01 66 41 89 47 08 0f 84 c0 00 00 00 41 0f b7 dc 48 8b 44 24 18 48 c1 e3 04 41 bb 00 10 00 00 48 8d 2c 18 8b 04 24 \u003c89\u003e 45 0c 41 8b 4d 00 49 d3 e3 44 3b 5c 24 24 0f 83 ac fe ff ff 44  RSP: 0018:ff7894738aa1f768 EFLAGS: 00010246  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000700 RDI: 0000000000000000  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ff16dcae79880200 R09: 0000000000000019  R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: 0000000000000000  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ff16dcae6c670000  FS:  00007fcf428850c0(0000) GS:ff16dcb149710000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033  CR2: 000000000000000c CR3: 0000000121227005 CR4: 0000000000773ef0  PKRU: 55555554  Call Trace:   \u003cTASK\u003e   ice_vsi_cfg_rxq+0xca/0x460 [ice]   ice_vsi_cfg_rxqs+0x54/0x70 [ice]   ice_loopback_test+0xa9/0x520 [ice]   ice_self_test+0x1b9/0x280 [ice]   ethtool_self_test+0xe5/0x200   __dev_ethtool+0x1106/0x1a90   dev_ethtool+0xbe/0x1a0   dev_ioctl+0x258/0x4c0   sock_do_ioctl+0xe3/0x130   __x64_sys_ioctl+0xb9/0x100   do_syscall_64+0x7c/0x700   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e   [...]  It crashes because we have not initialized libeth for the rx ring.  Fix it by treating ICE_VSI_LB VSIs slightly more like normal PF VSIs and letting them have a q_vector. It's just a dummy, because the loopback test does not use interrupts, but it contains a napi struct that can be passed to libeth_rx_fq_create() called from ice_vsi_cfg_rxq() -\u003e ice_rxq_pp_create().","modified":"2026-09-14T17:02:55.971511924Z","published":"2026-03-25T11:16:33.817Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-23353"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-23353"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.19.8-1"}]}],"versions":["6.12.100-1","6.12.101-1","6.12.105-1","6.12.107-1","6.12.38-1","6.12.41-1","6.12.43-1","6.12.43-1~bpo12+1","6.12.48-1","6.12.57-1","6.12.57-1~bpo12+1","6.12.63-1","6.12.63-1~bpo12+1","6.12.69-1","6.12.69-1~bpo12+1","6.12.73-1","6.12.73-1~bpo12+1","6.12.74-1","6.12.74-2","6.12.74-2~bpo12+1","6.12.85-1","6.12.85-1~bpo12+1","6.12.86-1","6.12.86-1~bpo12+1","6.12.88-1","6.12.88-1~bpo12+1","6.12.90-1","6.12.90-1~bpo12+1","6.12.90-2","6.12.90-2~bpo12+1","6.12.94-1","6.12.94-1~bpo12+1","6.12.95-1","6.12.95-1~bpo12+1","6.12.96-1","6.13.10-1~exp1","6.13.11-1~exp1","6.13.2-1~exp1","6.13.3-1~exp1","6.13.4-1~exp1","6.13.5-1~exp1","6.13.6-1~exp1","6.13.7-1~exp1","6.13.8-1~exp1","6.13.9-1~exp1","6.13~rc6-1~exp1","6.13~rc7-1~exp1","6.14.3-1~exp1","6.14.5-1~exp1","6.14.6-1~exp1","6.15-1~exp1","6.15.1-1~exp1","6.15.2-1~exp1","6.15.3-1~exp1","6.15.4-1~exp1","6.15.5-1~exp1","6.15.6-1~exp1","6.15~rc7-1~exp1","6.16-1~exp1","6.16.1-1~exp1","6.16.10-1","6.16.11-1","6.16.12-1","6.16.12-1~bpo13+1","6.16.12-2","6.16.3-1","6.16.3-1~bpo13+1","6.16.5-1","6.16.6-1","6.16.7-1","6.16.8-1","6.16.9-1","6.16~rc7-1~exp1","6.17.10-1","6.17.11-1","6.17.12-1","6.17.13-1","6.17.13-1~bpo13+1","6.17.2-1~exp1","6.17.5-1~exp1","6.17.6-1","6.17.7-1","6.17.7-2","6.17.8-1","6.17.8-1~bpo13+1","6.17.9-1","6.18.1-1~exp1","6.18.10-1","6.18.12-1","6.18.12-1~bpo13+1","6.18.13-1","6.18.14-1","6.18.15-1","6.18.15-1~bpo13+1","6.18.2-1~exp1","6.18.3-1","6.18.5-1","6.18.5-1~bpo13+1","6.18.8-1","6.18.9-1","6.18.9-1~bpo13+1","6.18~rc4-1~exp1","6.18~rc4-1~exp2","6.18~rc5-1~exp1","6.18~rc6-1~exp1","6.18~rc7-1~exp1","6.19-1~exp1","6.19.2-1~exp1","6.19.3-1~exp1","6.19.4-1~exp1","6.19.5-1~exp1","6.19.6-1","6.19.6-2","6.19.6-2~bpo13+1","6.19.8-1~bpo13+1","6.19~rc4-1~exp1","6.19~rc5-1~exp1","6.19~rc6-1~exp1","6.19~rc7-1~exp1","6.19~rc8-1~exp1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23353.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}