{"id":"CVE-2024-26953","revision":null,"records":[{"revision":"e61a31c49f13457daecde19be47c4385","observedAt":"2026-10-30T13:45:33.454+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2024-26953","aliases":[],"title":"net: esp: fix bad handling of pages from page_pool","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: esp: fix bad handling of pages from page_pool\n\nWhen the skb is reorganized during esp_output (!esp->inline), the pages\ncoming from the original skb fragments are supposed to be released back\nto the system through put_page. But if the skb fragment pages are\noriginating from a page_pool, calling put_page on them will trigger a\npage_pool leak which will eventually result in a crash.\n\nThis leak can be easily observed when using CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and doing\nipsec + gre (non offloaded) forwarding:\n\n  BUG: Bad page state in process ksoftirqd/16  pfn:1451b6\n  page:00000000de2b8d32 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1451b6000 pfn:0x1451b6\n  flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)\n  page_type: 0xffffffff()\n  raw: 0200000000000000 dead000000000040 ffff88810d23c000 0000000000000000\n  raw: 00000001451b6000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\n  page dumped because: page_pool leak\n  Modules linked in: ip_gre gre mlx5_ib mlx5_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat nf_nat xt_addrtype br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: mlx5_core]\n  CPU: 16 PID: 96 Comm: ksoftirqd/16 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc4+ #22\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   dump_stack_lvl+0x36/0x50\n   bad_page+0x70/0xf0\n   free_unref_page_prepare+0x27a/0x460\n   free_unref_page+0x38/0x120\n   esp_ssg_unref.isra.0+0x15f/0x200\n   esp_output_tail+0x66d/0x780\n   esp_xmit+0x2c5/0x360\n   validate_xmit_xfrm+0x313/0x370\n   ? validate_xmit_skb+0x1d/0x330\n   validate_xmit_skb_list+0x4c/0x70\n   sch_direct_xmit+0x23e/0x350\n   __dev_queue_xmit+0x337/0xba0\n   ? nf_hook_slow+0x3f/0xd0\n   ip_finish_output2+0x25e/0x580\n   iptunnel_xmit+0x19b/0x240\n   ip_tunnel_xmit+0x5fb/0xb60\n   ipgre_xmit+0x14d/0x280 [ip_gre]\n   dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc3/0x1c0\n   __dev_queue_xmit+0x208/0xba0\n   ? nf_hook_slow+0x3f/0xd0\n   ip_finish_output2+0x1ca/0x580\n   ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x32/0x40\n   ip_sublist_rcv+0x1b2/0x1f0\n   ? 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