BaselineWatch
Desk

CVE-2026-98239

8.1 high Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: lan743x: fix RX checksum use-after-free lan743x_rx_process_buffer() adds each non-first receive buffer to the head skb's frag_list. On the last descriptor, lan743x_rx_trim_skb() linearizes the head and frees the fragment skb metadata. The checksum-success path then writes ip_summed through the local skb pointer, which still points to the final fragment. This causes a use-after-free write when a packet spans more than one receive buffer. Set ip_summed on the surviving head skb instead. Multi-buffer receive can occur after a live MTU increase because existing ring entries keep their old buffer size until they are replenished. A KUnit test invoking lan743x_rx_process_buffer() with a two-buffer packet produced a one-byte KASAN use-after-free write before this change. The same test passed after the change. The driver object also builds with W=1. This was not tested on physical LAN743x hardware.

Fix

Microsoft's update · Moderate

  • Release Notes — azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 · build 6.6.158.1-1

From the 2026-Oct release note of Microsoft's Security Update Guide, revised 2026-10-31.

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 2

  1. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 09:16
  2. First seenCVSS 8.1NVD modified 2026-10-19 10:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 6