{"id":"CVE-2026-46321","revision":"a6295a45ea1c4e0485694b8614c0676a","records":[{"revision":"a6295a45ea1c4e0485694b8614c0676a","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2026-46321","aliases":[],"title":"tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()\n\ntun_xdp_one() returns -EINVAL on a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN without\nfreeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for it.\ntun_sendmsg() discards that -EINVAL and still returns total_len, so\nvhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each\nshort frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk.\n\nA local process that can open /dev/net/tun and /dev/vhost-net can hit\nthis path: it attaches a tun/tap device as the vhost-net backend and\nfeeds TX descriptors whose length minus the virtio-net header is below\nETH_HLEN. Each kick leaks the page-frag chunks for that batch, and a\ntight submission loop exhausts host memory and triggers an OOM panic.\nFree the page before returning -EINVAL, matching the XDP-program error\npath in the same function.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-06-09T12:11:13.872+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-15T01:21:35.519+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n                    \"product\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n                    \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n                    \"programFiles\": [\n                        \"drivers/net/tun.c\"\n                    ],\n                    \"versions\": [\n                        {\n                            \"version\": \"6100e0237204890269e3f934acfc50d35fd6f319\",\n                            \"lessThan\": 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