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CVE-2026-72393

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-15
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click 6 days old

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NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: fbnic: don't cache shinfo across skb realloc fbnic_tx_lso() calls skb_cow_head() which may reallocate the skb including the shared info. We can't use the pointer calculated before the call. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0 Read of size 4 at addr ff110000262edd98 by task swapper/5/0 Call Trace: fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0 fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620 Allocated by task 8653: __alloc_skb+0x11e/0x5f0 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xcc/0x6c0 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x327/0x3f0 __ip_append_data+0x188b/0x47a0 ip_make_skb+0x24a/0x300 udp_sendmsg+0x14d2/0x21e0 Freed by task 0: kfree+0x123/0x5a0 pskb_expand_head+0x36c/0xfa0 fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x500/0x8e0 fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620 sch_direct_xmit+0x25b/0x1100 The buggy address belongs to the object at ff110000262edc40 which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 640 The buggy address is located 344 bytes inside of freed 640-byte region [ff110000262edc40, ff110000262ede

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From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Recommended fix High confidence

Any Linux kernel version containing the fbnic fix (commit addressing skb_cow_head() pointer caching in fbnic_tx_lso)

  1. 1. Identify the current running kernel version using 'uname -r'
  2. 2. Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix for CVE-2026-72393
  3. 3. The fix is already merged in the upstream kernel - any stable release after the patch date will contain the fix
  4. 4. After kernel update, reboot the system to load the fixed kernel
  5. 5. Verify the fix is applied by checking the fbnic driver source code in /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fbnic/fbnic_tx.c for the corrected pointer handling after skb_cow_head()
Caveat Minimal risk - this is a bug fix in the network driver. However, updating the kernel may introduce other changes; test in staging first.

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