CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-22994

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-01-23 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-01-23
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() syzbot is reporting unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit0 to become free. Usage count = 2 problem. A debug printk() patch found that a refcount is obtained at xdp_convert_md_to_buff() from bpf_prog_test_run_xdp(). According to commit ec94670fcb3b ("bpf: Support specifying ingress via xdp_md context in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN"), the refcount obtained by xdp_convert_md_to_buff() will be released by xdp_convert_buff_to_md(). Therefore, we can consider that the error handling path introduced by commit 1c1949982524 ("bpf: introduce frags support to bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()") forgot to call xdp_convert_buff_to_md().

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 6.1.161) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.121) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.66) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.6) • linux linux kernel 6.19

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