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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43464" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:22:26.039Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:40:49.291Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-43464" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43464.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43464" title: "net/mlx5e: RX, Fix XDP multi-buf frag counting for legacy RQ" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: RX, Fix XDP multi-buf frag counting for legacy RQ\n\nXDP multi-buf programs can modify the layout of the XDP buffer when the\nprogram calls bpf_xdp_pull_data() or bpf_xdp_adjust_tail(). The\nreferenced commit in the fixes tag corrected the assumption in the mlx5\ndriver that the XDP buffer layout doesn't change during a program\nexecution. However, this fix introduced another issue: the dropped\nfragments still need to be counted on the driver side to avoid page\nfragment reference counting issues.\n\nSuch issue can be observed with the\ntest_xdp_native_adjst_tail_shrnk_data selftest when using a payload of\n3600 and shrinking by 256 bytes (an upcoming selftest patch): the last\nfragment gets released by the XDP code but doesn't get tracked by the\ndriver. This results in a negative pp_ref_count during page release and\nthe following splat:\n\n WARNING: include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:297 at mlx5e_page_release_fragmented.isra.0+0x4a/0x50 [mlx5_core], CPU#12: ip/3137\n Modules linked in: [...]\n CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 3137 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.19.0-rc3+ #12 NONE\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:mlx5e_page_release_fragmented.isra.0+0x4a/0x50 [mlx5_core]\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n mlx5e_dealloc_rx_wqe+0xcb/0x1a0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_free_rx_descs+0x7f/0x110 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_close_rq+0x50/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_close_queues+0x36/0x2c0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_close_channel+0x1c/0x50 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_close_channels+0x45/0x80 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_safe_switch_params+0x1a5/0x230 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_change_mtu+0xf3/0x2f0 [mlx5_core]\n netif_set_mtu_ext+0xf1/0x230\n do_setlink.isra.0+0x219/0x1180\n rtnl_newlink+0x79f/0xb60\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x213/0x3a0\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x48/0xf0\n netlink_unicast+0x24a/0x350\n netlink_sendmsg+0x1ee/0x410\n __sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x232/0x280\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xb0\n __sys_sendmsg+0x5f/0xb0\n [...]\n do_syscall_64+0x57/0xc50\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by doing page frag counting on all the\noriginal XDP buffer fragments for all relevant XDP actions (XDP_TX ,\nXDP_REDIRECT and XDP_PASS). This is basically reverting to the original\ncounting before the commit in the fixes tag.\n\nAs frag_page is still pointing to the original tail, the nr_frags\nparameter to xdp_update_skb_frags_info() needs to be calculated\nin a different way to reflect the new nr_frags." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"72328f25755ee966724f46e3a0e8e59bef2091ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1106412414dc3ee62999115be10ca83199b02108"},{"version":"0049fd63881505566824e88cfa624638f921c808","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9488ee96b4f53d2aed474c744f0ed64f61d1dcc9"},{"version":"afd5ba577c10639f62e8120df67dc70ea4b61176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c74557495efb4bd0adefdfc8678ecdbc82a06da3"},{"version":"afd5ba577c10639f62e8120df67dc70ea4b61176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03cb50e5b74fce8bf6d92b860371b66253cf0f8d"},{"version":"afd5ba577c10639f62e8120df67dc70ea4b61176","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6413e6f6c9d9bb9833324cb3753582f7bc0f2fa"},{"version":"d969645b9b7810289bf3c353ea06957373756b8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.115","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"6.12.56","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.114"},{"version":"6.17.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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