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CVE-2026-72017

Linux kernel

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close The MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that have not yet been marked as completed. They live in queue->tx_skb which gets freed without remorse nor checking. macb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only close will trigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and macb_alloc_consistent() failure cases, queues- tx_skb just got allocated and are empty.

EPSS 0.20600000000000002%Risk 0
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Published
2026-08-15 06:21:00
Affected versions
unknown
Type
Kernel
Last modified
2026-08-23 13:16:37
Vector
Pending