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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-22979" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-23T15:24:01.340Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:12:24.721Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-22979" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-22979.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22979" title: "net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets\n\nWhen skb_segment_list() is called during packet forwarding, it handles\npackets that were aggregated by the GRO engine.\n\nHistorically, the segmentation logic in skb_segment_list assumes that\nindividual segments are split from a parent SKB and may need to carry\ntheir own socket memory accounting. Accordingly, the code transfers\ntruesize from the parent to the newly created segments.\n\nPrior to commit ed4cccef64c1 (\"gro: fix ownership transfer\"), this\ntruesize subtraction in skb_segment_list() was valid because fragments\nstill carry a reference to the original socket.\n\nHowever, commit ed4cccef64c1 (\"gro: fix ownership transfer\") changed\nthis behavior by ensuring that fraglist entries are explicitly\norphaned (skb-\u003esk = NULL) to prevent illegal orphaning later in the\nstack. This change meant that the entire socket memory charge remained\nwith the head SKB, but the corresponding accounting logic in\nskb_segment_list() was never updated.\n\nAs a result, the current code unconditionally adds each fragment's\ntruesize to delta_truesize and subtracts it from the parent SKB. Since\nthe fragments are no longer charged to the socket, this subtraction\nresults in an effective under-count of memory when the head is freed.\nThis causes sk_wmem_alloc to remain non-zero, preventing socket\ndestruction and leading to a persistent memory leak.\n\nThe leak can be observed via KMEMLEAK when tearing down the networking\nenvironment:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881e6eb9100 (size 2048):\n comm \"ping\", pid 6720, jiffies 4295492526\n backtrace:\n kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x5c6/0x800\n sk_prot_alloc+0x5b/0x220\n sk_alloc+0x35/0xa00\n inet6_create.part.0+0x303/0x10d0\n __sock_create+0x248/0x640\n __sys_socket+0x11b/0x1d0\n\nSince skb_segment_list() is exclusively used for SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST\npackets constructed by GRO, the truesize adjustment is removed.\n\nThe call to skb_release_head_state() must be preserved. As documented in\ncommit cf673ed0e057 (\"net: fix fraglist segmentation reference count\nleak\"), it is still required to correctly drop references to SKB\nextensions that may be overwritten during __copy_skb_header()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2eeab8c47c3c0276e0746bc382f405c9a236a5ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b27828ebd1ed3107d7929c3737adbe862e99e74"},{"version":"fc126c1d51e9552eacd2d717b9ffe9262a8a4cd6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88bea149db2057112af3aaf63534b24fab5858ab"},{"version":"ed4cccef64c1d0d5b91e69f7a8a6697c3a865486","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3264881431e308b9c72cb8a0159d57a56d67dd79"},{"version":"ed4cccef64c1d0d5b91e69f7a8a6697c3a865486","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c114a32a2e70b82d447f409f7ffcfa3058f9d5bd"},{"version":"ed4cccef64c1d0d5b91e69f7a8a6697c3a865486","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"238e03d0466239410b72294b79494e43d4fabe77"},{"version":"d225b0ac96dc40d7e8ae2bc227eb2c56e130975f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5b3b67f731296027cceb3efad881ae281213f86f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.85","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.161"},{"version":"6.6.26","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.121"},{"version":"5.15.154","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.8.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.1.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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