CVE-2026-53229CWE-401

CVE-2026-53229

High · published June 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
37.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix DMA and xdp_frame leak on XDP_TX xmit failure

In the XSK branch of mlx5e_xmit_xdp_buff(), when sq->xmit_xdp_frame()

returns false (e.g. XDPSQ is full), the function returns without

unmapping the DMA address or freeing the xdp_frame allocated by

xdp_convert_zc_to_xdp_frame(). The xdpi_fifo push only happens on

success, so the completion path cannot recover these entries.

With CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y, the leak surfaces on driver unbind:

DMA-API: pci 0000:08:00.0: device driver has pending DMA

allocations while released from device [count=1116]

One of leaked entries details: [device address=0x000000010ffd7028]

[size=1534 bytes] [mapped with DMA_TO_DEVICE] [mapped as phy]

WARNING: kernel/dma/debug.c:881 at dma_debug_device_change+0x127/0x180

...

DMA-API: Mapped at:

debug_dma_map_phys+0x4b/0xd0

dma_map_phys+0xfd/0x2d0

mlx5e_xdp_handle+0x5ae/0xac0 [mlx5_core]

mlx5e_xsk_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear+0xc4/0x170 [mlx5_core]

mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq+0xc1/0x290 [mlx5_core]

Add the missing unmap + xdp_return_frame, matching the cleanup already

done in mlx5e_xdp_xmit(). has_frags is rejected earlier in this branch,

so no per-frag unmap is needed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00441 · 37.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2026-06-25T13:16Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.3, < 6.12.946.12.94
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.366.18.36
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 7.0.137.0.13
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References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 08:39Z
    net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix DMA and xdp_frame leak on XDP_TX xmit failure
    cvelistv5