Bug 2516635 (CVE-2026-72017) - CVE-2026-72017 kernel: net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close
Summary: CVE-2026-72017 kernel: net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72017
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:23:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close

The MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that
have not yet been marked as completed. They live in queue->tx_skb
which gets freed without remorse nor checking.

macb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only close will
trigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and macb_alloc_consistent()
failure cases, queues' tx_skb just got allocated and are empty.


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