CVE-2026-31518

Summary

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

esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto

When the TX queue for espintcp is full, esp_output_tail_tcp will return an error and not free the skb, because with synchronous crypto, the common xfrm output code will drop the packet for us.

With async crypto (esp_output_done), we need to drop the skb when esp_output_tail_tcp returns an error.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < aca3ad0c262f54a5b5c95dda80a48365997d1224affected
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 41aafca57de4a4c026701622bd4648f112a9edcdaffected
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 4820847e036ff1035b01b69ad68dfc17e7028fe9affected
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 6a3ec6efbc4f90e0ccb2e71574f07351f19996f4affected
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < df6f995358dc1f3c42484f5cfe241d7bd3e1cd15affected
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 88d386243ed374ac969dabd3bbc1409a31d81818affected
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 6aa9841d917532d0f2d932d1ff2f3a94305aaf47affected
LinuxLinuxe27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 < 0c0eef8ccd2413b0a10eb6bbd3442333b1e64dd2affected
LinuxLinux5.6affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.6unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.253 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.203 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.168 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.131 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.80 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.21 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.19.11 <= 6.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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