CVE-2026-46321: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 97% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()
tun_xdp_one() returns -EINVAL on a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN without
freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for it.
tun_sendmsg() discards that -EINVAL and still returns total_len, so
vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each
short frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk.
A local process that can open /dev/net/tun and /dev/vhost-net can hit
this path: it attaches a tun/tap device as the vhost-net backend and
feeds TX descriptors whose length minus the virtio-net header is below
ETH_HLEN. Each kick leaks the page-frag chunks for that batch, and a
tight submission loop exhausts host memory and triggers an OOM panic.
Free the page before returning -EINVAL, matching the XDP-program error
path in the same function.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.htmlhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6f46a9332ad6958992d64d3b3a81a80b2ca940https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e8211fcf9426f5adddf32516ba0f400ceb9544dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a1c268c2c8090bf4dc552d732bd23ba36f8eb0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b34f9e4fe2f203724a6e893d6df0316b9670057https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69863ff2720a0e9871f1a5710f2a33a94217fee0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98c67be9eb9de72465a071949e84a3cdb8fab5a3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e915445942af6dcea628bf66d6241641201a0c41https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4feb1e20058e407cb00f45aff47f5b7e19a6bbf