CVE-2026-46320
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
| Attack Vector | A | Adjacent |
| Attack Complexity | L | Low |
| Privileges Required | N | None |
| User Interaction | N | None |
| Scope | C | Changed |
| Confidentiality | N | None |
| Integrity | N | None |
| Availability | H | High |
Timeline
- 2026-06-09 — Published (NVD)
- 2026-07-23 — Last modified (NVD)
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp() tap_get_user_xdp() rejects a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN with -EINVAL, and returns -ENOMEM when build_skb() fails. Both paths jump to the err label without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for the frame. tap_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer return value and always returns 0, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each rejected frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk. Free the page on both error paths, before the skb is built. This is the tap counterpart of the same leak in tun_xdp_one().
Affected
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18a84c35842e19cd3c5534d8cee73d31863f696d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bcf7aec6a9d16438f2cec29f5d7c8d5b8edf9b2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f52a86a482a69294c50a5a2a097bd6f4104990a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d03e65eb6cfbffec471a6b65416f93679bf3286
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d30aac0fa00ca0afc3e08174cf7f974a66bdcf05
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d68eab61944a9b0826fa2e954e42db1aa3201b7a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e27c17346628cb56843a83f93ac63c314c00f388
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f979971835dddbca86cf99e3b2e2b94a408a1ab2