CVE-2026-98913

Name	CVE-2026-98913
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: thunderx: fix PTP device ref leak in nicvf_probe() cavium_ptp_get() acquires a reference to the PTP PCI device through pci_get_device(). If any initialization step fails after cavium_ptp_get(), the PTP PCI device reference is leaked. Add a common error path to release the PTP reference before returning from probe failures.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.190-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.117-1	fixed
	forky	7.2.15-1	fixed
	sid	7.3.4-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.190-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.111-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.6-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/2bcf59eefb9f00a2b1d426b639ee49c305a80695 (7.2-rc1)