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    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2026-97978",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:18:58.208Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-09-25T10:23:15.831Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-21T12:53:56.446Z"
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                    "value": "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."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8bf9bfda5f62e11444e483c2b4aaff90c5cfc6b"
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