CVE-2026-22994

CVE-2026-22994

Medium · published January 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()

syzbot is reporting

unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit0 to become free. Usage count = 2

problem. A debug printk() patch found that a refcount is obtained at

xdp_convert_md_to_buff() from bpf_prog_test_run_xdp().

According to commit ec94670fcb3b ("bpf: Support specifying ingress via

xdp_md context in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN"), the refcount obtained by

xdp_convert_md_to_buff() will be released by xdp_convert_buff_to_md().

Therefore, we can consider that the error handling path introduced by

commit 1c1949982524 ("bpf: introduce frags support to

bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()") forgot to call xdp_convert_buff_to_md().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00140 · 3.1th percentile
Published
2026-01-23T21:15Z
Affected products (9)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.18, < 6.1.1616.1.161
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1216.6.121
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.666.12.66
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.66.18.6
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References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JAN 15:24Z
    bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()
    cvelistv5