CVE-2026-46320EPSS p14.6%
CVE-2026-46320CVE-2026-46320
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp()
tap_get_user_xdp() rejects a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN with -EINVAL,
and returns -ENOMEM when build_skb() fails. Both paths jump to the err
label without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for
the frame. tap_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer return value and always
returns 0, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees
the page; each rejected frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk.
Free the page on both error paths, before the skb is built. This is the
tap counterpart of the same leak in tun_xdp_one().
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.4 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.24% probability of exploitation · percentile 14.6% · 2026-08-03T12:00:16Z |
| Last modified | 2026-07-23 |
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