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CVE-2026-99047EUVD-2026-108842GHSA-MR8Q-3JQ6-M2C3

gve: fix XSK buffer leak when rings are stopped

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.18.57, 7.2.11
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: fix XSK buffer leak when rings are stopped GVE does not free XSK buffers when resetting ring state as a part of stopping queues. This causes all XSK buffers which are posted to the NIC to be leaked. Free XSK buffers attached to an allocated buf_state when stopping rings. This issue was hit in production.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff · fixed in 506f9de069d07a72b9887ce3edd2fdf32f4953aa; From c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff · fixed in 7a7e6bbbf0586c1f62f0cc7d9a2877d8a5e5aaf7; From c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff · fixed in 73670ddb91a4d22e1deb3efd962242de1ec48e90

  • Linux Linux

    6.17

  • KernelLinux

    From 6.17.0 · fixed in 6.18.57; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.11

References 3

git.kernel.org