CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46322

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, in the tun driver, a memory leak was found in tun_xdp_one() on build_skb() failure. The page allocated by vhost_net_build_xdp() was not freed, leading to memory exhaustion. Each failure in a batch leaks a page-frag chunk.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker can open /dev/net/tun and /dev/vhost-net devices and send crafted TX descriptors, causing memory leaks and potentially leading to an OOM panic, resulting in denial of service.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2026-46322.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: free page on build_skb failure in tun_xdp_one() When build_skb() fails in tun_xdp_one(), the function sets ret to -ENOMEM and jumps to the out label, which returns without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for the frame. As with the short-frame rejection path, tun_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer error and still returns total_len, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page. Each build_skb() failure in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk. Free the page before taking the error path, matching the put_page() the other error exits of tun_xdp_one() already perform.

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