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  "schema_version": "1.6.1",
  "id": "RPI-CVE-2026-97978",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-97978"
  ],
  "published": "2026-09-25T10:24:31Z",
  "summary": "eth: ice: don't dereference pointers from TP_printk()",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neth: ice: don't dereference pointers from TP_printk()\n\nAfter forwarding net-next during the v7.3 merge window we started\nseeing:\n\n  TRACE EVENT ERROR: Event ice_tx_dim_work has double dereference in TP_printk: REC->q_vector->tx.tx_ring->q_index\n  WARNING: kernel/trace/trace_events.c:420 at test_double_dereference.cold+0x39/0x4b\n\nthis is due to extra checks added in tracing subsystem in\ncommit b5cc230af5e5 (\"tracing: Warn when an event dereferences a pointer in TP_printk()\").\n\nPrinting happens long after the event was recorded, by which point\nthe pointers may be invalid (the ring or the dim instance).\nCopy the eight scalars into the event instead.",
  "affected": [
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12",
        "name": "linux"
      },
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            "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)",
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  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97978"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae230874e3ba27e975a9bb21a6ffd05d6a2ea318"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b0d2f9db2406aa541a8bc3737f4f4aae1cafde9"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c42db35518bb0eae42ec955520eee0aa94a4a6fe"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
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    "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git",
    "upstream_modified": "2026-09-25T10:24:31Z"
  }
}