# CVE-2026-23343: xdp: produce a warning when calculated tailroom is negative


- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 25 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-80730, BELL-CVE-2026-23343, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23343, GHSA-rqf2-6q66-wgpp, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-23343, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-23343, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-23343, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23343

## What is CVE-2026-23343?

CVE-2026-23343 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Mar 2026. 

### Official description

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

xdp: produce a warning when calculated tailroom is negative

Many ethernet drivers report xdp Rx queue frag size as being the same as
DMA write size. However, the only user of this field, namely
bpf_xdp_frags_increase_tail(), clearly expects a truesize.

Such difference leads to unspecific memory corruption issues under certain
circumstances, e.g. in ixgbevf maximum DMA write size is 3 KB, so when
running xskxceiver's XDP_ADJUST_TAIL_GROW_MULTI_BUFF, 6K packet fully uses
all DMA-writable space in 2 buffers. This would be fine, if only
rxq->frag_size was properly set to 4K, but value of 3K results in a
negative tailroom, because there is a non-zero page offset.

We are supposed to return -EINVAL and be done with it in such case, but due
to tailroom being stored as an unsigned int, it is reported to be somewhere
near UINT_MAX, resulting in a tail being grown, even if the requested
offset is too much (it is around 2K in the abovementioned test). This later
leads to all kinds of unspecific calltraces.

[ 7340.337579] xskxceiver[1440]: segfault at 1da718 ip 00007f4161aeac9d sp 00007f41615a6a00 error 6
[ 7340.338040] xskxceiver[1441]: segfault at 7f410000000b ip 00000000004042b5 sp 00007f415bffecf0 error 4
[ 7340.338179]  in libc.so.6[61c9d,7f4161aaf000+160000]
[ 7340.339230]  in xskxceiver[42b5,400000+69000]
[ 7340.340300]  likely on CPU 6 (core 0, socket 6)
[ 7340.340302] Code: ff ff 01 e9 f4 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 4c 39 f0 74 73 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 f0 0f b1 17 0f 85 ba 00 00 00 49 8b 87 88 00 00 00 <4c> 89 70 08 eb cc 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8d bd f0 fe ff ff 89 85 ec fe
[ 7340.340888]  likely on CPU 3 (core 0, socket 3)
[ 7340.345088] Code: 00 00 00 ba 00 00 00 00 be 00 00 00 00 89 c7 e8 31 ca ff ff 89 45 ec 8b 45 ec 85 c0 78 07 b8 00 00 00 00 eb 46 e8 0b c8 ff ff <8b> 00 83 f8 69 74 24 e8 ff c7 ff ff 8b 00 83 f8 0b 74 18 e8 f3 c7
[ 7340.404334] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6d255010bdffc: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 7340.405972] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 1439 Comm: xskxceiver Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1+ #21 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 7340.408006] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-5.fc42 04/01/2014
[ 7340.409716] RIP: 0010:lookup_swap_cgroup_id+0x44/0x80
[ 7340.410455] Code: 83 f8 1c 73 39 48 ba ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 03 48 8b 04 c5 20 55 fa bd 48 21 d1 48 89 ca 83 e1 01 48 d1 ea c1 e1 04 48 8d 04 90 <8b> 00 48 83 c4 10 d3 e8 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c0 e9 98 b7 dd 00 48 89
[ 7340.412787] RSP: 0018:ffffcc5c04f7f6d0 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 7340.413494] RAX: 0006d255010bdffc RBX: ffff891f477895a8 RCX: 0000000000000010
[ 7340.414431] RDX: 0001c17e3fffffff RSI: 00fa070000000000 RDI: 000382fc7fffffff
[ 7340.415354] RBP: 00fa070000000000 R08: ffffcc5c04f7f8f8 R09: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0
[ 7340.416283] R10: ffff891f4c1a7000 R11: ffffcc5c04f7f9c8 R12: ffffcc5c04f7f7d0
[ 7340.417218] R13: 03ffffffffffffff R14: 00fa06fffffffe00 R15: ffff891f47789500
[ 7340.418229] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff891ffdfaa000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 7340.419489] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 7340.420286] CR2: 00007f415bfffd58 CR3: 0000000103f03002 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
[ 7340.421237] PKRU: 55555554
[ 7340.421623] Call Trace:
[ 7340.421987]  <TASK>
[ 7340.422309]  ? softleaf_from_pte+0x77/0xa0
[ 7340.422855]  swap_pte_batch+0xa7/0x290
[ 7340.423363]  zap_nonpresent_ptes.constprop.0.isra.0+0xd1/0x270
[ 7340.424102]  zap_pte_range+0x281/0x580
[ 7340.424607]  zap_pmd_range.isra.0+0xc9/0x240
[ 7340.425177]  unmap_page_range+0x24d/0x420
[ 7340.425714]  unmap_vmas+0xa1/0x180
[ 7340.426185]  exit_mmap+0xe1/0x3b0
[ 7340.426644]  __mmput+0x41/0x150
[ 7340.427098]  exit_mm+0xb1/0x110
[ 7340.427539]  do_exit+0x1b2/0x460
[ 7340.427992]  do_group_exit+0x2d/0xc0
[ 7340.428477]  get_signal+0x79d/0x7e0
[ 7340.428957]  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x34/0x100
[ 7340.429571]  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8e/0x4c0
[ 7340.430159]  do_syscall_64+0x188/
---truncated---

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-23343?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-23343?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2026-23343 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23343 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-23343 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-23343 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Mar 2026. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23343 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23343/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23343/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23343
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23343
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23343

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23343/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.