GHSA-F37V-5R8J-33M9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-22 15:31 – Updated: 2026-04-28 18:30
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto

When the TX queue for espintcp is full, esp_output_tail_tcp will return an error and not free the skb, because with synchronous crypto, the common xfrm output code will drop the packet for us.

With async crypto (esp_output_done), we need to drop the skb when esp_output_tail_tcp returns an error.

Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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