{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "not yet assigned"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in net_failover_slave_name_change()  This is a sibling fix of commit b84c5632c7b3 (\"net: net_failover: Fix the deadlock in slave register\"). There is netdev_lock_ops() in the upper callers, so using netif_open() instead of dev_open().  Call Trace:  __schedule+0x2bb/0x650  schedule+0x27/0xb0  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30  __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x550/0xaf0  __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20  mutex_lock+0x3b/0x50  dev_open+0x3b/0xe0  net_failover_slave_name_change+0x22/0x40  failover_event+0xd4/0x1e0  notifier_call_chain+0x62/0xf0  raw_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x30  call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x50/0x80  netif_change_name+0x200/0x330  do_setlink.isra.0+0xb12/0xdf0  ? security_capable+0x9a/0x1e0  ? ns_capable+0x31/0x60  rtnl_setlink+0x302/0x670  ? netlink_recvmsg+0x296/0x340  ? security_capable+0x9a/0x1e0  ? __pfx_rtnl_setlink+0x10/0x10  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x384/0x460  ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10  netlink_rcv_skb+0x61/0x120  rtnetlink_rcv+0x15/0x30  netlink_unicast+0x28f/0x3c0  netlink_sendmsg+0x216/0x450  __sys_sendto+0x222/0x230  __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x40  x64_sys_call+0x1d5d/0x2390  do_syscall_64+0x105/0x5a0  ? do_syscall_64+0x140/0x5a0  ? exc_page_fault+0x94/0x1e0  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97956",
  "modified": "2026-09-26T04:47:36.428450495Z",
  "published": "2026-09-25T11:17:23.253Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-97956"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-97956"
  ]
}