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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23143" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-14T15:36:08.834Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:38:54.971Z" 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-2026-23143" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23143.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23143" title: "virtio_net: Fix misalignment bug in struct virtnet_info" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio_net: Fix misalignment bug in struct virtnet_info\n\nUse the new TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper to fix a misalignment bug\nalong with the following warning:\n\ndrivers/net/virtio_net.c:429:46: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]\n\nThis helper creates a union between a flexible-array member (FAM)\nand a set of members that would otherwise follow it (in this case\n`u8 rss_hash_key_data[VIRTIO_NET_RSS_MAX_KEY_SIZE];`). This\noverlays the trailing members (rss_hash_key_data) onto the FAM\n(hash_key_data) while keeping the FAM and the start of MEMBERS aligned.\nThe static_assert() ensures this alignment remains.\n\nNotice that due to tail padding in flexible `struct\nvirtio_net_rss_config_trailer`, `rss_trailer.hash_key_data`\n(at offset 83 in struct virtnet_info) and `rss_hash_key_data` (at\noffset 84 in struct virtnet_info) are misaligned by one byte. See\nbelow:\n\nstruct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer {\n __le16 max_tx_vq; /* 0 2 */\n __u8 hash_key_length; /* 2 1 */\n __u8 hash_key_data[]; /* 3 0 */\n\n /* size: 4, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */\n /* padding: 1 */\n /* last cacheline: 4 bytes */\n};\n\nstruct virtnet_info {\n...\n struct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer rss_trailer; /* 80 4 */\n\n /* XXX last struct has 1 byte of padding */\n\n u8 rss_hash_key_data[40]; /* 84 40 */\n...\n /* size: 832, cachelines: 13, members: 48 */\n /* sum members: 801, holes: 8, sum holes: 31 */\n /* paddings: 2, sum paddings: 5 */\n};\n\nAfter changes, those members are correctly aligned at offset 795:\n\nstruct virtnet_info {\n...\n union {\n struct virtio_net_rss_config_trailer rss_trailer; /* 792 4 */\n struct {\n unsigned char __offset_to_hash_key_data[3]; /* 792 3 */\n u8 rss_hash_key_data[40]; /* 795 40 */\n }; /* 792 43 */\n }; /* 792 44 */\n...\n /* size: 840, cachelines: 14, members: 47 */\n /* sum members: 801, holes: 8, sum holes: 35 */\n /* padding: 4 */\n /* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 4 */\n /* last cacheline: 8 bytes */\n};\n\nAs a result, the RSS key passed to the device is shifted by 1\nbyte: the last byte is cut off, and instead a (possibly\nuninitialized) byte is added at the beginning.\n\nAs a last note `struct virtio_net_rss_config_hdr *rss_hdr;` is also\nmoved to the end, since it seems those three members should stick\naround together. :)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4c47aff10f6f0a2506dc2126c17ccd4c42bfa211","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1e9614a142eff34c93e94a15a71ad0e806799c4"},{"version":"ed3100e90d0d120a045a551b85eb43cf2527e885","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae48108c2310f1dd700e0dbb655c2f1d92ed00fc"},{"version":"ed3100e90d0d120a045a551b85eb43cf2527e885","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4156c3745f06bc197094b9ee97a9584e69ed00bf"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.114"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.7","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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