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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23150" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-14T16:01:18.968Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:01:10.727Z" 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-2026-23150" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23150.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23150" title: "nfc: llcp: Fix memleak in nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame()." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: llcp: Fix memleak in nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame().\n\nsyzbot reported various memory leaks related to NFC, struct\nnfc_llcp_sock, sk_buff, nfc_dev, etc. [0]\n\nThe leading log hinted that nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() failed\nto allocate skb due to sock_error(sk) being -ENXIO.\n\nENXIO is set by nfc_llcp_socket_release() when struct\nnfc_llcp_local is destroyed by local_cleanup().\n\nThe problem is that there is no synchronisation between\nnfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() and local_cleanup(), and skb\ncould be put into local-\u003etx_queue after it was purged in\nlocal_cleanup():\n\n CPU1 CPU2\n ---- ----\n nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() local_cleanup()\n |- do { '\n |- pdu = nfc_alloc_send_skb(..., &err)\n | .\n | |- nfc_llcp_socket_release(local, false, ENXIO);\n | |- skb_queue_purge(&local-\u003etx_queue); |\n | ' |\n |- skb_queue_tail(&local-\u003etx_queue, pdu); |\n ... |\n |- pdu = nfc_alloc_send_skb(..., &err) |\n ^._________________________________.'\n\nlocal_cleanup() is called for struct nfc_llcp_local only\nafter nfc_llcp_remove_local() unlinks it from llcp_devices.\n\nIf we hold local-\u003etx_queue.lock then, we can synchronise\nthe thread and nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame().\n\nLet's do that and check list_empty(&local-\u003elist) before\nqueuing skb to local-\u003etx_queue in nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame().\n\n[0]:\n[ 56.074943][ T6096] llcp: nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame: Could not allocate PDU (error=-6)\n[ 64.318868][ T5813] kmemleak: 6 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881272f6800 (size 1024):\n comm \"syz.0.17\", pid 6096, jiffies 4294942766\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 27 00 03 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 '..@............\n backtrace (crc da58d84d):\n kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4979 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5284 [inline]\n __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5645 [inline]\n __kmalloc_noprof+0x3e3/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5658\n kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]\n sk_prot_alloc+0x11a/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:2239\n sk_alloc+0x36/0x360 net/core/sock.c:2295\n nfc_llcp_sock_alloc+0x37/0x130 net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:979\n llcp_sock_create+0x71/0xd0 net/nfc/llcp_sock.c:1044\n nfc_sock_create+0xc9/0xf0 net/nfc/af_nfc.c:31\n __sock_create+0x1a9/0x340 net/socket.c:1605\n sock_create net/socket.c:1663 [inline]\n __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1700 [inline]\n __sys_socket+0xb9/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1747\n __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1761 [inline]\n __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1759 [inline]\n __x64_sys_socket+0x1b/0x30 net/socket.c:1759\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810fbd9800 (size 240):\n comm \"syz.0.17\", pid 6096, jiffies 4294942850\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 68 f0 ff 08 81 88 ff ff 68 f0 ff 08 81 88 ff ff h.......h.......\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 68 2f 27 81 88 ff ff .........h/'....\n backtrace (crc 6cc652b1):\n kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4979 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5284 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x36f/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:5336\n __alloc_skb+0x203/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:660\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]\n alloc_skb_with_frags+0x69/0x3f0 net/core/sk\n---truncated---" affected: 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