Bug 2486985 (CVE-2026-46320) - CVE-2026-46320 kernel: tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp()
Summary: CVE-2026-46320 kernel: tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-46320
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-06-09 13:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-09 16:52 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-09 13:01:39 UTC
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().


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