CVE-2026-53079 (GCVE-0-2026-53079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 16:30 – Updated: 2026-06-24 16:30
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Title
net_sched: fix skb memory leak in deferred qdisc drops
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net_sched: fix skb memory leak in deferred qdisc drops When the network stack cleans up the deferred list via qdisc_run_end(), it operates on the root qdisc. If the root qdisc do not implement the TCQ_F_DEQUEUE_DROPS flag the packets queue to free are never freed and gets stranded on the child's local to_free list. Fix this by making qdisc_dequeue_drop() aware of the root qdisc. It fetches the root qdisc and check for the TCQ_F_DEQUEUE_DROPS flag. If the flag is present, the packet is appended directly to the root's to_free list. Otherwise, drop it directly as it was done before the optimization was implemented.
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Linux Linux Affected: a6efc273ab8245722eee2150fa12cf75781dc410 , < bf26ad92ffda7884825d67b46bd5efe615c3babf (git)
Affected: a6efc273ab8245722eee2150fa12cf75781dc410 , < a6bd339dbb3514bce690fdcf252e788dfab4ee76 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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