xsk: Fix fragment node deletion to prevent buffer leak (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-23326
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: Fix fragment node deletion to prevent buffer leak After commit b692bf9a7543 ("xsk: Get rid of xdp_buff_xsk::xskb_list_node"), the list_node field is reused for both the xskb pool list and the buffer free list, this causes a buffer leak as described below. xp_free() checks if a buffer is already on the free list using list_empty(&xskb->list_node). When list_del() is used to remove a node from the xskb pool list, it doesn't reinitialize the node pointers. This means list_empty() will return false even after the node has been removed, causing xp_free() to incorrectly skip adding the buffer to the free list. Fix this by using list_del_init() instead of list_del() in all fragment handling paths, this ensures the list node is reinitialized after removal, allowing the list_empty() to work correctly.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 560c974b7ccd95bb9ff20df77f6654283e45c9c6 < 5172adf9efb8298a52f4dcdc3f98d4d9d1e06a6d ; affected fd5614763805d6f386bd07cc53558f88b1b1eb62 < 2a9ea988465ece5b6896b1bdc144170a64e84c35 ; affected b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 < 645c6d8376ad4913cbffe0e0c2cca0c4febbe596 ; affected b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 < b38cbd4af5034635cff109e08788c63f956f3a69 ; affected b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 < 60abb0ac11dccd6b98fd9182bc5f85b621688861
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.13 ; unaffected 0 < 6.13 ; unaffected 6.18.17 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 6.19.7 ≤ 6.19.* ; unaffected 7.0 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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