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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46321" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-09T12:11:13.872Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:21:35.519Z" 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-2026-46321" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46321.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46321" title: "tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()\n\ntun_xdp_one() returns -EINVAL on a frame shorter than ETH_HLEN without\nfreeing the page that vhost_net_build_xdp() allocated for it.\ntun_sendmsg() discards that -EINVAL and still returns total_len, so\nvhost_tx_batch() takes the success path and never frees the page; each\nshort frame in a batch leaks one page-frag chunk.\n\nA local process that can open /dev/net/tun and /dev/vhost-net can hit\nthis path: it attaches a tun/tap device as the vhost-net backend and\nfeeds TX descriptors whose length minus the virtio-net header is below\nETH_HLEN. Each kick leaks the page-frag chunks for that batch, and a\ntight submission loop exhausts host memory and triggers an OOM panic.\nFree the page before returning -EINVAL, matching the XDP-program error\npath in the same function." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6100e0237204890269e3f934acfc50d35fd6f319","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a6f46a9332ad6958992d64d3b3a81a80b2ca940"},{"version":"589382f50b4a5d90d16d8bc9dcbc0e927a3e39b2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e8211fcf9426f5adddf32516ba0f400ceb9544d"},{"version":"ad6b3f622ccfb4bfedfa53b6ebd91c3d1d04f146","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e915445942af6dcea628bf66d6241641201a0c41"},{"version":"d5ad89b7d01ed4e66fd04734fc63d6e78536692a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b34f9e4fe2f203724a6e893d6df0316b9670057"},{"version":"049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69863ff2720a0e9871f1a5710f2a33a94217fee0"},{"version":"049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37a1c268c2c8090bf4dc552d732bd23ba36f8eb0"},{"version":"049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98c67be9eb9de72465a071949e84a3cdb8fab5a3"},{"version":"049584807f1d797fc3078b68035450a9769eb5c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4feb1e20058e407cb00f45aff47f5b7e19a6bbf"},{"version":"32b0aaba5dbc85816898167d9b5d45a22eae82e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a9d1c27e2ee3b0ea5d40c105d6e728fc114470bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8418f55302fa1d2eeb73e16e345167e545c598a5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.223","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.259"},{"version":"5.15.164","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.210"},{"version":"6.1.102","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.176"},{"version":"6.6.43","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.143"},{"version":"5.4.281","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.9.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.10.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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