← CVE Intelligence

CVE-2026-74710

xsk: require at least 16 bytes of TX metadata PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: require at least 16 bytes of TX metadata AF_XDP accepts a TX metadata length as small as eight bytes, but every supported request needs the flags plus at least one eight-byte request field. Such short metadata also lets the kernel read beyond the registered area. Require 16 bytes rather than sizeof(struct xsk_tx_metadata) to preserve compatibility with applications that do not use launch-time metadata.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 341ac980eab90ac1f6c22ee9f9da83ed9604d899 before 21b8536aee819792f1b4b38b9aacf2a073025d49; affected 341ac980eab90ac1f6c22ee9f9da83ed9604d899 before 642c6e73fce17fdca93a5793c4d22359fda866d7; affected 341ac980eab90ac1f6c22ee9f9da83ed9604d899 before cfb9d2976b277e554e28c165e3eff4b4a8ea10bd; affected 341ac980eab90ac1f6c22ee9f9da83ed9604d899 before 1bb30b181d9f0484e141f8411e15ed906d5c6780
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.8; unaffected 0 before 6.8; unaffected 6.12.104 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.45 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.9 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.