net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31429
MEDIUM 5.5

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.26 % · centile 18 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE is intentionally set to a non-power-of-2 value (e.g. 704 on x86_64) to avoid collisions with generic kmalloc bucket sizes. This ensures that skb_kfree_head() can reliably use skb_end_offset to distinguish skb heads allocated from skb_small_head_cache vs. generic kmalloc caches. However, when KFENCE is enabled, kfence_ksize() returns the exact requested allocation size instead of the slab bucket size. If a caller (e.g. bpf_test_init) allocates skb head data via kzalloc() and the requested size happens to equal SKB_SMALL_HEAD_CACHE_SIZE, then slab_build_skb() -> ksize() returns that exact value. After subtracting skb_shared_info overhead, skb_end_offset ends up matching SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM, causing skb_kfree_head() to incorrectly free the object to skb_small_head_cache instead of back to the original kmalloc cache, resulting in a slab cross-cache free: kmem_cache_free(skbuff_small_head): Wrong slab cache. Expected skbuff_small_head but got kmalloc-1k Fix this by always calling kfree(head) in skb_kfree_head(). This keeps the free path generic and avoids allocator-specific misclassification for KFENCE objects.

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Mémoire non libérée après sa durée de vie utile

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
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)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Configurations affectées (CPE NVD)

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected bf9f1baa279f0758dc2297080360c5a616843927 < 128b03ccb2582a643983a48a37fda58df80edbde ; affected bf9f1baa279f0758dc2297080360c5a616843927 < 60313768a8edc7094435975587c00c2d7b834083 ; affected bf9f1baa279f0758dc2297080360c5a616843927 < 2d64618ea846d8d033477311f805ca487d6a6696 ; affected bf9f1baa279f0758dc2297080360c5a616843927 < 474e00b935db250cac320d10c1d3cf4e44b46721 ; affected bf9f1baa279f0758dc2297080360c5a616843927 < 0f42e3f4fe2a58394e37241d02d9ca6ab7b7d516
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.3 ; unaffected 0 < 6.3 ; unaffected 6.6.136 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.82 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.23 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 6.19.13 ≤ 6.19.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD