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FKIE_CVE-2026-46321

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-09 13:16 - Updated: 2026-07-23 08:10

Severity

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one() tun_xdp_one() returns -EINVAL on a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for it. tun_sendmsg() discards that -EINVAL and still returns total_len, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each short frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk. A local process that can open /dev/net/tun and /dev/vhost-net can hit this path: it attaches a tun/tap device as the vhost-net backend and feeds TX descriptors whose length minus the virtio-net header is below ETH_HLEN. Each kick leaks the page-frag chunks for that batch, and a tight submission loop exhausts host memory and triggers an OOM panic. Free the page before returning -EINVAL, matching the XDP-program error path in the same function.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6f46a9332ad6958992d64d3b3a81a80b2ca940	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e8211fcf9426f5adddf32516ba0f400ceb9544d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a1c268c2c8090bf4dc552d732bd23ba36f8eb0	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b34f9e4fe2f203724a6e893d6df0316b9670057	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69863ff2720a0e9871f1a5710f2a33a94217fee0	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98c67be9eb9de72465a071949e84a3cdb8fab5a3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e915445942af6dcea628bf66d6241641201a0c41	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4feb1e20058e407cb00f45aff47f5b7e19a6bbf	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	7.1
linux	linux_kernel	7.1
linux	linux_kernel	7.1
linux	linux_kernel	7.1
linux	linux_kernel	7.1

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CVE-2026-46321 (GCVE-0-2026-46321)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-09 12:11 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:31

Title

tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6f46a9332ad6958…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e8211fcf9426f5ad…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e915445942af6dcea…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b34f9e4fe2f20372…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69863ff2720a0e987…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a1c268c2c8090bf…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98c67be9eb9de7246…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4feb1e20058e407c…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6100e0237204890269e3f934acfc50d35fd6f319 , < 0a6f46a9332ad6958992d64d3b3a81a80b2ca940 (git) Affected: 589382f50b4a5d90d16d8bc9dcbc0e927a3e39b2 , < 0e8211fcf9426f5adddf32516ba0f400ceb9544d (git) Affected: ad6b3f622ccfb4bfedfa53b6ebd91c3d1d04f146 , < e915445942af6dcea628bf66d6241641201a0c41 (git) Affected: d5ad89b7d01ed4e66fd04734fc63d6e78536692a , < 5b34f9e4fe2f203724a6e893d6df0316b9670057 (git) Affected: 049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3 , < 69863ff2720a0e9871f1a5710f2a33a94217fee0 (git) Affected: 049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3 , < 37a1c268c2c8090bf4dc552d732bd23ba36f8eb0 (git) Affected: 049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3 , < 98c67be9eb9de72465a071949e84a3cdb8fab5a3 (git) Affected: 049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3 , < f4feb1e20058e407cb00f45aff47f5b7e19a6bbf (git) Affected: 32b0aaba5dbc85816898167d9b5d45a22eae82e9 (git) Affected: a9d1c27e2ee3b0ea5d40c105d6e728fc114470bb (git) Affected: 8418f55302fa1d2eeb73e16e345167e545c598a5 (git) Affected: 5.10.223 , < 5.10.259 (semver) Affected: 5.15.164 , < 5.15.210 (semver) Affected: 6.1.102 , < 6.1.176 (semver) Affected: 6.6.43 , < 6.6.143 (semver) Affected: 5.4.281 , < 5.5 (semver) Affected: 6.9.12 , < 6.10 (semver) Affected: 6.10.2 , < 6.11 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.259 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.210 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.176 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.143 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.93 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.35 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.12 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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