CVE-2026-99046 (GCVE-0-2026-99046)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 12:22 – Updated: 2026-10-24 14:10
VLAI
Title
gve: fix XSK buffer leak on error descriptor
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: fix XSK buffer leak on error descriptor When the error bit is set in the RX completion descriptor, the buf_state and its attached buffer should be freed. In the case of AF_XDP ZC, the XSK buffer was not freed, leading to a leak. This issue was caught by LLM.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff , < 06656aaa7e43ae62b673c2244d27099b8b94a70d (git)
Affected: c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff , < 889f763874855c575429f75946132a53c573aa14 (git)
Affected: c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff , < 9fed6a8ab8a5bacba2c709cb19d2dd6d2fa9112e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.57 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.11 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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