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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98022" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:42.116Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:27.416Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98022" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98022.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98022" title: "net: cap tx_queue_len at S16_MAX to prevent oversized ring allocations" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: cap tx_queue_len at S16_MAX to prevent oversized ring allocations\n\nSeveral subsystems allocate ring buffers sized by dev-\u003etx_queue_len\nwith no upper bound. An unprivileged user (via unshare -Urn) can set a\nhuge tx_queue_len and exhaust global memory with ring allocations:\n\n- pfifo_fast: pfifo_fast_init() and pfifo_fast_change_tx_queue_len()\n allocate 3 skb_array rings of tx_queue_len entries each.\n- tun: tun_queue_resize() and the queue-attach path resize ptr_rings\n to tx_queue_len on the NETDEV_CHANGE_TX_QUEUE_LEN notifier.\n- tap (macvtap/ipvtap): tap_queue_resize() and tap_init() resize/init\n ptr_rings to tx_queue_len on the same notifier.\n\nnetif_change_tx_queue_len() is the single entry point for IFLA_TXQLEN,\nsysfs, and the SIOCSIFTXQLEN ioctl. Cap new_len at S16_MAX (32767)\nthere so the oversized value is rejected at set time. This takes\neffect whether the device is up or down, before dev-\u003etx_queue_len is\nwritten, before any notifier fires, and before any ring is allocated.\nThe \"\u003e S16_MAX\" check also subsumes the previous unsigned-long\ntruncation test, and a negative ifr_qlen from the ioctl lands far\nabove the cap after conversion, so both old failure modes are covered\nby the one comparison.\n\ntx_queue_len is ambigious: both a per-ring sizing multiplier and a\ndefault queue-length/limit knob for consumers that allocate\nnothing at set time (pfifo/bfifo/gred/plug/sfb limits, htb\ndirect_qlen, qfq max_classes, teql). 32767 is chosen as the largest\nvalue NLA_POLICY_FULL_RANGE can express for the u32 IFLA_TXQLEN\npolicy in patch 2/3 while staying a legitimate queue length on\nhigh-BDP paths; the ring-memory trade-off of a shared knob is\ndisclosed below.\n\nConditions to recreate the bug:\n- CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y, CONFIG_VETH=y, CONFIG_USER_NS=y, CONFIG_NET_NS=y.\n- Unprivileged user in a fresh user+net namespace (unshare -Urn).\n- pfifo_fast: create veth pairs, set tx_queue_len to 500000, attach\n mq+pfifo_fast. ~28 iterations OOMs a 2GB guest.\n- tun: create 50 tun devices with IFF_MULTI_QUEUE, set tx_queue_len to\n 500000, open 8 queues each. ~1.6GB of ptr_ring allocations OOMs a\n 512MB guest.\n- tap: same as tun with IFF_TAP. ~960MB OOMs a 512MB guest.\n- On the fixed kernel the oversized tx_queue_len is rejected with\n -ERANGE at set time (all four paths: RTM_SETLINK, RTM_NEWLINK\n create, sysfs, ioctl - the latter two via this check, the former\n two via this check and the 2/3 parse policy respectively)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24d02c909a1725ab9eceb92db7d02e4e841f17ca"},{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e5591a0f33f7c11bf1d338dbb6c5072575de64c"},{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8d4060610c69645733c92d94fceb4b93808ac4d"},{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2362c500931e5bd1826bce34e9ce28af80e7541"},{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81c0e02076989743a603806a5a4f44d2c40dc01f"},{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"081340cf70a789b94b4174af54a63ffd49677a4e"},{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a03b927bae4af5c23fd5315a237855c17cc8f422"},{"version":"6a643ddb5624be7e0694d49f5765a8d41c1ab6d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66ab4c59b74db7ab53a1c9083feaaede393a96a0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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