CVE-2026-98239: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
net: lan743x: fix RX checksum use-after-free
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.1epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 61% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: lan743x: fix RX checksum use-after-free
lan743x_rx_process_buffer() adds each non-first receive buffer to the
head skb's frag_list. On the last descriptor, lan743x_rx_trim_skb()
linearizes the head and frees the fragment skb metadata.
The checksum-success path then writes ip_summed through the local skb
pointer, which still points to the final fragment. This causes a
use-after-free write when a packet spans more than one receive buffer.
Set ip_summed on the surviving head skb instead. Multi-buffer receive
can occur after a live MTU increase because existing ring entries keep
their old buffer size until they are replenished.
A KUnit test invoking lan743x_rx_process_buffer() with a two-buffer
packet produced a one-byte KASAN use-after-free write before this change.
The same test passed after the change. The driver object also builds
with W=1. This was not tested on physical LAN743x hardware.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e52886c4324c9897c2c62f92be3dc8316cee67ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/161a403c8625e152de03d1da22bbf9cda6dc9f9fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c216bfa9fb7b36804485e67975e9c98055b31efhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe5c3a2503983abb431d93faeadfc7f5e6a7e33https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a58024835c704419bb46d2a34e5223f65605f958https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9ce4053dc945c5372dedba5017ee675b30dc0c5