Riskcovery

CVE-2026-72393

eth: fbnic: don't cache shinfo across skb realloc

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

eth: fbnic: don't cache shinfo across skb realloc

fbnic_tx_lso() calls skb_cow_head() which may reallocate the skb including the shared info. We can't use the pointer calculated before the call.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0 Read of size 4 at addr ff110000262edd98 by task swapper/5/0 Call Trace: fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0 fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620

Allocated by task 8653: __alloc_skb+0x11e/0x5f0 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xcc/0x6c0 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x327/0x3f0 __ip_append_data+0x188b/0x47a0 ip_make_skb+0x24a/0x300 udp_sendmsg+0x14d2/0x21e0

Freed by task 0: kfree+0x123/0x5a0 pskb_expand_head+0x36c/0xfa0 fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x500/0x8e0 fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620 sch_direct_xmit+0x25b/0x1100

The buggy address belongs to the object at ff110000262edc40 which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 640 The buggy address is located 344 bytes inside of freed 640-byte region [ff110000262edc40, ff110000262ede

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b0b0f52042acb324cd39fbefb2b1ae83af8f8ae1 to before 83df3e2594cd78aa40b1246a19879abb4891945bAffected
  • b0b0f52042acb324cd39fbefb2b1ae83af8f8ae1 to before 21f304c2aae46625e050c28d979f4b9d83faa85eAffected
  • b0b0f52042acb324cd39fbefb2b1ae83af8f8ae1 to before 62b68b774f06bf52e329f254f0199bc43d350ccfAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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