CVE-2026-23326

xsk: Fix fragment node deletion to prevent buffer leak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 25, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xsk: Fix fragment node deletion to prevent buffer leak

After commit b692bf9a7543 ("xsk: Get rid of xdp_buff_xsk::xskb_list_node"), the list_node field is reused for both the xskb pool list and the buffer free list, this causes a buffer leak as described below.

xp_free() checks if a buffer is already on the free list using list_empty(&xskb->list_node). When list_del() is used to remove a node from the xskb pool list, it doesn't reinitialize the node pointers. This means list_empty() will return false even after the node has been removed, causing xp_free() to incorrectly skip adding the buffer to the free list.

Fix this by using list_del_init() instead of list_del() in all fragment handling paths, this ensures the list node is reinitialized after removal, allowing the list_empty() to work correctly.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 560c974b7ccd95bb9ff20df77f6654283e45c9c6 to before 5172adf9efb8298a52f4dcdc3f98d4d9d1e06a6dAffected
  • fd5614763805d6f386bd07cc53558f88b1b1eb62 to before 2a9ea988465ece5b6896b1bdc144170a64e84c35Affected
  • b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 to before 645c6d8376ad4913cbffe0e0c2cca0c4febbe596Affected
  • b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 to before b38cbd4af5034635cff109e08788c63f956f3a69Affected
  • b692bf9a7543af7ad11a59d182a3757578f0ba53 to before 60abb0ac11dccd6b98fd9182bc5f85b621688861Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.13Affected
  • before 6.13Not affected
  • 6.18.17 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.7 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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