# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46320"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-09T12:11:12.882Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:58.167Z"
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-2026-46320"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46320.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46320"
title: "tap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntap: free page on error paths in tap_get_user_xdp()\n\ntap_get_user_xdp() rejects a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN with -EINVAL,\nand returns -ENOMEM when build_skb() fails. Both paths jump to the err\nlabel without freeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for\nthe frame. tap_sendmsg() discards the per-buffer return value and always\nreturns 0, so vhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees\nthe page; each rejected frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk.\n\nFree the page on both error paths, before the skb is built. This is the\ntap counterpart of the same leak in tun_xdp_one()."
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