CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46320

HighCVSS 7.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a memory leak occurs in tap_get_user_xdp() because pages are not freed on error paths, leading to page-frag leaks.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak can exhaust system memory over time, causing crashes or denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that fixes the memory leak in the tap driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp() tap_get_user_xdp() rejects a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN with -EINVAL, and returns -ENOMEM when build_skb() fails. Both paths jump to the err label without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for the frame. tap_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer return value and always returns 0, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each rejected frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk. Free the page on both error paths, before the skb is built. This is the tap counterpart of the same leak in tun_xdp_one().

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS