CVE-2026-99046: gve: fix XSK buffer leak on error descriptor
Published Oct 23, 2026
·Updated
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gve: fix XSK buffer leak on error descriptor
When the error bit is set in the RX completion descriptor, the bufstate and its attached buffer should be freed. In the case of AFXDP ZC, the XSK buffer was not freed, leading to a leak.
This issue was caught by LLM.
Affected Software
1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel
Event History
Oct 23, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:22 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:22 PM
Description