CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80613
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-28
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
veth: fix NAPI leak in XDP enable error path
During XDP enablement in veth, if xdp_rxq_info_reg() or
xdp_rxq_info_reg_mem_model() fails, the driver rolls back the changes.
However, the rollback loop:
for (i--; i >= start; i--) {
decrements the loop index 'i' before the first iteration. This
correctly skips unregistering the rxq for the failed index 'i' (as
registration failed or was already cleaned up), but it also
erroneously skips calling netif_napi_deli() for rq[i].xdp_napi.
Since netif_napi_add() was already called for index 'i', this leaves
a dangling napi_struct in the device's napi_list. When the veth
device is later destroyed, the freed queue memory (which contains the
leaked NAPI structure) can be reused.
The subsequent device teardown iterates the NAPI list and
corrupts the reallocated memory, leading to UAF.
Fix this by explicitly deleting the NAPI association for the failed
index 'i' before rolling back the successfully configured queues.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4559770b2a241344d762719e674241fcc8528f02 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bd2e5dbe62334aae1182d0f0d260f334a49d739 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6739027cb72da26890edd424c77080d187b2a92e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83090f5e7b54721d71875a6c224d2490b9e73050 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9e6707322ef215d39d4655b176c094f45f0ab52 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3eb258ad398cc9402bab3a5e730cd7c5b34efad git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc51373345e7e6ea73da2650cb497309c50b077a git.kernel.org