Critical · published August 15, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eth: fbnic: don't cache shinfo across skb realloc
fbnic_tx_lso() calls skb_cow_head() which may reallocate the skb
including the shared info. We can't use the pointer calculated
before the call.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0
Read of size 4 at addr ff110000262edd98 by task swapper/5/0
Call Trace:
fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0
fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620
Allocated by task 8653:
__alloc_skb+0x11e/0x5f0
alloc_skb_with_frags+0xcc/0x6c0
sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x327/0x3f0
__ip_append_data+0x188b/0x47a0
ip_make_skb+0x24a/0x300
udp_sendmsg+0x14d2/0x21e0
Freed by task 0:
kfree+0x123/0x5a0
pskb_expand_head+0x36c/0xfa0
fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x500/0x8e0
fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620
sch_direct_xmit+0x25b/0x1100
The buggy address belongs to the object at ff110000262edc40
which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 640
The buggy address is located 344 bytes inside of
freed 640-byte region [ff110000262edc40, ff110000262ede