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CVE-2026-99047

gve: fix XSK buffer leak when rings are stopped

N/A
Published: October 23, 2026 at 12:22 PM UTC
Updated: October 23, 2026 at 01:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: fix XSK buffer leak when rings are stopped GVE does not free XSK buffers when resetting ring state as a part of stopping queues. This causes all XSK buffers which are posted to the NIC to be leaked. Free XSK buffers attached to an allocated buf_state when stopping rings. This issue was hit in production.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Linux Kernel· Linux
90%
6.17c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.57 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (3)

Source: cverecord
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/506f9de069d07a72b9887ce3edd2fdf32f4953aa
Source: cverecord
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a7e6bbbf0586c1f62f0cc7d9a2877d8a5e5aaf7
Source: cverecord
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73670ddb91a4d22e1deb3efd962242de1ec48e90

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