CVE-2026-23339

Summary

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

nfc: nci: free skb on nci_transceive early error paths

nci_transceive() takes ownership of the skb passed by the caller, but the -EPROTO, -EINVAL, and -EBUSY error paths return without freeing it.

Due to issues clearing NCI_DATA_EXCHANGE fixed by subsequent changes the nci/nci_dev selftest hits the error path occasionally in NIPA, and kmemleak detects leaks:

unreferenced object 0xff11000015ce6a40 (size 640): comm "nci_dev", pid 3954, jiffies 4295441246 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 a4 00 0c 02 e1 03 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkk…….kkkkk 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk backtrace (crc 7c40cc2a): kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x492/0x630 __alloc_skb+0x11e/0x5f0 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc6/0x8f0 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x326/0x3f0 nfc_alloc_send_skb+0x94/0x1d0 rawsock_sendmsg+0x162/0x4c0 do_syscall_64+0x117/0xfc0

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < b367cb44d919f35b07cd56feffa15e68cd9f53f9affected
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < 6d898f943766440cf766d30364e715111c3563b5affected
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < 33f6b8a96dda045789796c3bcb451c74ac158039affected
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < dcbcccfc5195c9caaa4bb8d31f23c345f00a9e89affected
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < 3245801d44a44c090acefe19a12d22d12cac45c5affected
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < 9d448bbab724b94d6c561e1f314656f5b88a7cb3affected
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < 54f7f0eaafa56b5994cdb5c7967946922c2e1d22affected
LinuxLinux6a2968aaf50c7a22fced77a5e24aa636281efca8 < 7bd4b0c4779f978a6528c9b7937d2ca18e936e2caffected
LinuxLinux3.2affected
LinuxLinux0 < 3.2unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.253 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.203 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.167 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.130 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.77 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.17 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.19.7 <= 6.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References