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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-22994"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-23T15:24:14.749Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:12:31.365Z"
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-2026-22994"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-22994.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22994"
title: "bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()\n\nsyzbot is reporting\n\n  unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit0 to become free. Usage count = 2\n\nproblem. A debug printk() patch found that a refcount is obtained at\nxdp_convert_md_to_buff() from bpf_prog_test_run_xdp().\n\nAccording to commit ec94670fcb3b (\"bpf: Support specifying ingress via\nxdp_md context in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN\"), the refcount obtained by\nxdp_convert_md_to_buff() will be released by xdp_convert_buff_to_md().\n\nTherefore, we can consider that the error handling path introduced by\ncommit 1c1949982524 (\"bpf: introduce frags support to\nbpf_prog_test_run_xdp()\") forgot to call xdp_convert_buff_to_md()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"368569bc546d3368ee9980ba79fc42fdff9a3365"},{"version":"1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98676ee71fd4eafeb8be63c7f3f1905d40e03101"},{"version":"1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb9ef40cccdbacce36029b305d0ef1e12e4fea38"},{"version":"1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"737be05a765761d7d7c9f7fe92274bd8e6f6951e"},{"version":"1c194998252469cad00a08bd9ef0b99fd255c260","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec69daabe45256f98ac86c651b8ad1b2574489a7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"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"}]

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