CVE-2026-80613

CVE-2026-80613

High · published August 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

veth: fix NAPI leak in XDP enable error path

During XDP enablement in veth, if xdp_rxq_info_reg() or

xdp_rxq_info_reg_mem_model() fails, the driver rolls back the changes.

However, the rollback loop:

for (i--; i >= start; i--) {

decrements the loop index 'i' before the first iteration. This

correctly skips unregistering the rxq for the failed index 'i' (as

registration failed or was already cleaned up), but it also

erroneously skips calling netif_napi_deli() for rq[i].xdp_napi.

Since netif_napi_add() was already called for index 'i', this leaves

a dangling napi_struct in the device's napi_list. When the veth

device is later destroyed, the freed queue memory (which contains the

leaked NAPI structure) can be reused.

The subsequent device teardown iterates the NAPI list and

corrupts the reallocated memory, leading to UAF.

Fix this by explicitly deleting the NAPI association for the failed

index 'i' before rolling back the successfully configured queues.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00129 · 2.3th percentile
Published
2026-08-28T12:16Z
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 AUG 06:48Z
    veth: fix NAPI leak in XDP enable error path
    cvelistv5