VYPR
High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 17, 2026· Updated Oct 21, 2026

CVE-2026-90142

CVE-2026-90142

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtio_net: Fix resize of the RX ring

When a AF_XDP socket is attached, the virtnet_rx_resize should resize the rq->xsk_buffs XSK buffer array. Otherwise, when the size grows, the virtnet_rx_resume() causes a write past the end of the array. This is easily reproducable with

ethtool -G ens3 rx 32 ./xdpsock -i eth0 -q 0 -r -z & ethtool -G eth0 rx 256

AI Insight

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

Affected products

3

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

4

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.