CVE-2026-43464

HIGH EPSS 32.1%
Published May 8, 20261mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
7.5 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published May 8, 2026 1mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: RX, Fix XDP multi-buf frag counting for legacy RQ XDP multi-buf programs can modify the layout of the XDP buffer when the program calls bpf_xdp_pull_data() or bpf_xdp_adjust_tail(). The referenced commit in the fixes tag corrected the assumption in the mlx5 driver that the XDP buffer layout doesn't change during a program execution. However, this fix introduced another issue: the dropped fragments still need to be counted on the driver side to avoid page fragment reference counting issues. Such issue can be observed with the test_xdp_native_adjst_tail_shrnk_data selftest when using a payload of 3600 and shrinking by 256 bytes (an upcoming selftest patch): the last fragment gets released by the XDP code but doesn't get tracked by the driver. This results in a negative pp_ref_count during page release and the following splat: WARNING: include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:297 at mlx5e_page_release_fragmented.isra.0+0x4a/0x50 [mlx5_core], CPU#12: ip/3137 Modules linked in: [...] CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 3137 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.19.0-rc3+ #12 NONE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:mlx5e_page_release_fragmented.isra.0+0x4a/0x50 [mlx5_core] [...] Call Trace: <TASK> mlx5e_dealloc_rx_wqe+0xcb/0x1a0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_free_rx_descs+0x7f/0x110 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_close_rq+0x50/0x60 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_close_queues+0x36/0x2c0 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_close_channel+0x1c/0x50 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_close_channels+0x45/0x80 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_safe_switch_params+0x1a5/0x230 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_change_mtu+0xf3/0x2f0 [mlx5_core] netif_set_mtu_ext+0xf1/0x230 do_setlink.isra.0+0x219/0x1180 rtnl_newlink+0x79f/0xb60 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x213/0x3a0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x48/0xf0 netlink_unicast+0x24a/0x350 netlink_sendmsg+0x1ee/0x410 __sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60 ____sys_sendmsg+0x232/0x280 ___sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xb0 __sys_sendmsg+0x5f/0xb0 [...] do_syscall_64+0x57/0xc50 This patch fixes the issue by doing page frag counting on all the original XDP buffer fragments for all relevant XDP actions (XDP_TX , XDP_REDIRECT and XDP_PASS). This is basically reverting to the original counting before the commit in the fixes tag. As frag_page is still pointing to the original tail, the nr_frags parameter to xdp_update_skb_frags_info() needs to be calculated in a different way to reflect the new nr_frags.

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.5
Exploitability
3.9
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
32.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Affected Products 14

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.6.115  –  <6.7
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.12.56  –  <6.13
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.17.6  –  <6.18
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.18.1  –  <6.18.19
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.19  –  <6.19.9
linuxlinux_kernel6.18any
linuxlinux_kernel6.18any
linuxlinux_kernel6.18any
linuxlinux_kernel6.18any
linuxlinux_kernel6.18any
linuxlinux_kernel6.18any
linuxlinux_kernel7.0any
linuxlinux_kernel7.0any
linuxlinux_kernel7.0any

References 3

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03cb50e5b74fce8bf6d92b860371b66253cf0f8d
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6413e6f6c9d9bb9833324cb3753582f7bc0f2fa
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c74557495efb4bd0adefdfc8678ecdbc82a06da3
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03cb50e5b74fce8bf6d92b860371b66253cf0f8d
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6413e6f6c9d9bb9833324cb3753582f7bc0f2fa
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c74557495efb4bd0adefdfc8678ecdbc82a06da3
    Patch