bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-22994
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() syzbot is reporting unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit0 to become free. Usage count = 2 problem. A debug printk() patch found that a refcount is obtained at xdp_convert_md_to_buff() from bpf_prog_test_run_xdp(). According to commit ec94670fcb3b ("bpf: Support specifying ingress via xdp_md context in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN"), the refcount obtained by xdp_convert_md_to_buff() will be released by xdp_convert_buff_to_md(). Therefore, we can consider that the error handling path introduced by commit 1c1949982524 ("bpf: introduce frags support to bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()") forgot to call xdp_convert_buff_to_md().

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260 < 368569bc546d3368ee9980ba79fc42fdff9a3365 ; affected 1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260 < 98676ee71fd4eafeb8be63c7f3f1905d40e03101 ; affected 1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260 < fb9ef40cccdbacce36029b305d0ef1e12e4fea38 ; affected 1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260 < 737be05a765761d7d7c9f7fe92274bd8e6f6951e ; affected 1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260 < ec69daabe45256f98ac86c651b8ad1b2574489a7
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.18 ; unaffected 0 < 5.18 ; unaffected 6.1.161 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.121 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.66 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.6 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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