{"id":"CVE-2026-23453","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix memory leak in XDP_DROP for non-zero-copy mode","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix memory leak in XDP_DROP for non-zero-copy mode\n\nPage recycling was removed from the XDP_DROP path in emac_run_xdp() to\navoid conflicts with AF_XDP zero-copy mode, which uses xsk_buff_free()\ninstead.\n\nHowever, this causes a memory leak when running XDP programs that drop\npackets in non-zero-copy mode (standard page pool mode). The pages are\nnever returned to the page pool, leading to OOM conditions.\n\nFix this by handling cleanup in the caller, emac_rx_packet().\nWhen emac_run_xdp() returns ICSSG_XDP_CONSUMED for XDP_DROP, the\ncaller now recycles the page back to the page pool. The zero-copy\npath, emac_rx_packet_zc() already handles cleanup correctly with\nxsk_buff_free().","publishedAt":"2026-04-03T15:15:35.549Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-05T12:21:53.011Z","severity":{"score":7.5,"label":"High","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","source":"Linux"},"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"7a64bb388df3cf091afdd047c701039a13acd3b4","status":"affected","lessThan":"d16d57dedcb69c1a1257e0638f8698ce1f0ccbe5","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7a64bb388df3cf091afdd047c701039a13acd3b4","status":"affected","lessThan":"719d3e71691db7c4f1658ba5a6d1472928121594","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"6.19","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.19.10","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16d57dedcb69c1a1257e0638f8698ce1f0ccbe5","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/719d3e71691db7c4f1658ba5a6d1472928121594"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:11:21.040Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/23xxx/CVE-2026-23453.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-23453","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-04-03T15:15:35.549Z","dateUpdated":"2026-08-05T12:21:53.011Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2026-01-13T15:37:46.020Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix memory leak in XDP_DROP for non-zero-copy mode","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix memory leak in XDP_DROP for non-zero-copy mode\n\nPage recycling was removed from the XDP_DROP path in emac_run_xdp() to\navoid conflicts with AF_XDP zero-copy mode, which uses xsk_buff_free()\ninstead.\n\nHowever, this causes a memory leak when running XDP programs that drop\npackets in non-zero-copy mode (standard page pool mode). The pages are\nnever returned to the page pool, leading to OOM conditions.\n\nFix this by handling cleanup in the caller, emac_rx_packet().\nWhen emac_run_xdp() returns ICSSG_XDP_CONSUMED for XDP_DROP, the\ncaller now recycles the page back to the page pool. The zero-copy\npath, emac_rx_packet_zc() already handles cleanup correctly with\nxsk_buff_free()."}],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"7a64bb388df3cf091afdd047c701039a13acd3b4","status":"affected","lessThan":"d16d57dedcb69c1a1257e0638f8698ce1f0ccbe5","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7a64bb388df3cf091afdd047c701039a13acd3b4","status":"affected","lessThan":"719d3e71691db7c4f1658ba5a6d1472928121594","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"6.19","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.19.10","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_common.c"]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16d57dedcb69c1a1257e0638f8698ce1f0ccbe5"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/719d3e71691db7c4f1658ba5a6d1472928121594"}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","baseScore":7.5,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"},"scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"AV:N - The vulnerable path is native RX packet processing in the TI ICSSG Ethernet driver, reached by packets arriving on the network interface. In a reasonable XDP firewall/drop deployment, a remote sender can supply packets that the installed XDP program drops.\nAC:L - Once the interface is running with a non-zero-copy XDP program that returns XDP_DROP, triggering the leak only requires sending matching packets. There is no race, timing window, or fragile memory-layout dependency.\nPR:N - The attacker does not need to load or attach the XDP program in the highest-impact scenario; the target is already configured with an XDP drop program. The triggering packets can be unauthenticated network traffic.\nUI:N - No victim user action is required during exploitation. Packet receipt and NAPI RX processing occur automatically on the running interface.\nS:U - The impact remains within the same kernel and host security authority. This is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or cross-scope boundary violation.\nC:N - The bug is an unrecycled page-pool buffer leak on XDP_DROP, not an out-of-bounds access, use-after-free, or information disclosure. No attacker-readable data is exposed by this flaw.\nI:N - The leak does not corrupt memory or provide a write primitive. It only loses references to RX pages that should have been returned to the page pool.\nA:H - Each dropped packet in the affected mode can permanently leak a page, and sustained unauthenticated traffic can drive the system into OOM. On embedded or network-gateway deployments this can cause loss of service, process termination, watchdog reset, or system unavailability."}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"Linux","orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateUpdated":"2026-08-05T12:21:53.011Z"},"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.19","versionEndExcluding":"6.19.10"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.19","versionEndExcluding":"7.0"}]}]}],"x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}}