{ "cveId": "CVE-2026-99079", "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-99079", "summary": "CVE-2026-99079 is fixed in 19 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-99079, released October 24, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.", "title": "net/mlx5e: Prevent stale XSK buffer release on refill retry", "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Prevent stale XSK buffer release on refill retry When an XDP redirect to an AF_XDP socket fails because its RX ring is full, the XSK core frees the buffer. During the subsequent batched refill of a legacy cyclic RQ, mlx5e also releases the WQE\u0027s XSK buffer before allocating a replacement. If that refill succeeds only partially, a WQE left without a replacement retains its old buffer pointer. The buffer can meanwhile be allocated to another WQE. A later refill retry can then free the live buffer through the stale pointer and publish the same UMEM frame twice. Mark the WQE as released immediately after the driver-side free. The flag is already cleared when a replacement buffer is assigned, so refill retries no longer release stale pointers. The failure is silent and produces no kernel warning or splat. A standalone legacy cyclic-RQ zero-copy libxsk reproducer, using 64-byte UDP traffic offered at 12 Mpps, detected it: stock stopped after 2,854,914 packets in 4.094 seconds, with 4,542 xdp_rx_ring_full events and 64 ownership/double-publication errors. With this change it processed 356,904,225 packets in 30 seconds despite 571,405 xdp_rx_ring_full events, with no ownership or data errors.", "published": "2026-10-23T13:17:32Z", "severity": "Critical", "cvss": 9.8, "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "epss": 0.00455, "epssPercentile": 0.39741, "priority": "Urgent", "priorityTier": 2, "exploited": false, "vendorExploited": false, "disclosed": false, "vendorAdvisory": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-99079", "fixes": [ { "platform": "linux", "product": "bpftool6.12", "release": "amzn 2023", "fixedVersion": "1:6.12.113-138.209.amzn2023", "fix": "ALAS2023-2026-3335", "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-3335", "released": "2026-11-07T01:06:52Z" }, { "platform": "linux", "product": "bpftool6.12-debuginfo", "release": "amzn 2023", "fixedVersion": "1:6.12.113-138.209.amzn2023", "fix": "ALAS2023-2026-3335", "url": 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