CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-97411

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 24, 2026Sources checked Nov 12, 2026

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Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-97411. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Sep 28, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-97411?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ibm: emac: mal: fix potential system hang in mal_remove()

napi_disable() is not idempotent and calling it on an already-disabled or unenabled NAPI context will cause the kernel to spin indefinitely waiting for the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit to clear.

In mal_remove(), napi_disable() is called unconditionally. If no MACs were registered, NAPI was never enabled.

Also, if they were registered but subsequently unregistered, NAPI was already disabled in mal_unregister_commac(). In either case, calling napi_disable() causes the kernel to hang upon module removal.

Fix this by only calling napi_disable() in mal_remove() if the commac list is not empty (which implies NAPI is enabled).

Source: NVD