GHSA-v3cw-v56w-xqgwunknown

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: macb: drop in-flight Tx...

Published
August 15, 2026
Last Modified
August 15, 2026

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📋 Description

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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