CVE-2026-72017
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macb: drop in-flight Tx SKBs on close
The MACB driver has since forever leaked the outgoing SKBs that have not yet been marked as completed. They live in queue->tx_skb which gets freed without remorse nor checking.
macb_free_consistent() gets called in a few codepaths, but only close will trigger the added expressions. In macb_open() and macb_alloc_consistent() failure cases, queues' tx_skb just got allocated and are empty.
CVSS
NVD no ha asignado puntuación CVSS a esta CVE (habitual desde el cambio de política de abril de 2026).
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.21%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 11
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e9797dc4ebdefe1b7f931b1f92d5e98e5dbf655
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/109241d9880488aafd8e104832b4d4859ad57244
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2143fdc0ce27adbb1caaa1a97e0bfb9f3750aef4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b131b2d5b55a81ef6182769d28105a870c0eb2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27f575836cfebbf872dec020428742b10650a955
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6124bd785073659c99385094657b77382ebce11b
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