CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-99057
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen/netfront: don't leak the skb when xennet_fill_frags() fails
When a response chain has more slots than fit in the skb's frags,
xennet_fill_frags() returns an error and xennet_poll() jumps to its
error path. That path moves what's left on tmpq to errq to be freed,
but the skb being filled was already dequeued from tmpq, so it's never
freed. Each chain that overflows leaks the skb and the pages attached
to it as frags, and the backend decides how many slots it sends.
Put the skb back on tmpq before taking the error path, like the
xennet_set_skb_gso() failure just above it does.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/086944c1c2cbb683543bc3ff08637847b03c8009 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cf0a25a639c535146c5eb4480d256995721aed6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5051df031144753d3e18862514969146b601d089 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53a131eb2a998c77e2851401b32b712d6c6e8487 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e6bd1051daabc327233c3ca3d00613fc6783c8e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84e3ea6502b5f14ce8d499d0b6e0e38386274cf0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93ccaf1c26e2133396173b76a071e59024daa622 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99011a11c97340ef7290df7dc199305c73fab2f2 git.kernel.org