CVE-2026-23326 (GCVE-0-2026-23326)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 10:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:04
VLAI
Title
xsk: Fix fragment node deletion to prevent buffer leak
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 560c974b7ccd95bb9ff20df77f6654283e45c9c6 , < 5172adf9efb8298a52f4dcdc3f98d4d9d1e06a6d (git)
Affected: fd5614763805d6f386bd07cc53558f88b1b1eb62 , < 2a9ea988465ece5b6896b1bdc144170a64e84c35 (git)
Affected: b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 , < 645c6d8376ad4913cbffe0e0c2cca0c4febbe596 (git)
Affected: b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 , < b38cbd4af5034635cff109e08788c63f956f3a69 (git)
Affected: b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 , < 60abb0ac11dccd6b98fd9182bc5f85b621688861 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.17 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.7 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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