NTB: ntb_netdev: Preserve RX queue depth on allocation failure (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74626
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.50 % · percentile 43 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NTB: ntb_netdev: Preserve RX queue depth on allocation failure ntb_netdev_rx_handler() hands the received skb to the network stack before allocating its replacement. If the allocation fails, nothing is reposted. Every failure therefore takes one buffer out of the RX queue while the interface remains up, and enough failures eventually stall reception. A retry path could refill the queue later, but ntb_netdev has none. Allocate the replacement first instead. If that fails, drop the packet and repost the same skb. This keeps the queue full and lets packet delivery resume as soon as memory is available again.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d < 6d7f8a23c130d768c0976c2578b214353674e18f ; affected 548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d < 18781cc0bfb5c7f2a51ac6d678a28f101b7c35c5 ; affected 548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d < 272df0fbe6f3e04e22bc67fbdd9ac24586b942f4 ; affected 548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d < fcaf8ba7e56bb73319ac107a63b907d59536192c ; affected 548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d < 3f2a15f33f86f7bd5b920669fd40c06725d72a1e ; affected 548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d < a4e340971fe8ccd245d206db4d43b2a0eec240bd
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.9 ; unaffected 0 < 3.9 ; unaffected 5.10.267 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.218 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.185 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.154 ≤ 6.6.*

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