CVE-2026-23453: Add CVSS 3.1 score (7.5 HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AV:N -The vulnerable path is native RX packet processing in the TI
ICSSG Ethernet driver, reached by packets arriving on the network
interface. In a reasonable XDP firewall/drop deployment, a remote
sender can supply packets that the installed XDP program drops.
AC:L -Once the interface is running with a non-zero-copy XDP
program that returns XDP_DROP, triggering the leak only requires
sending matching packets. There is no race, timing window, or
fragile memory-layout dependency.
PR:N -The attacker does not need to load or attach the XDP program
in the highest-impact scenario; the target is already configured
with an XDP drop program. The triggering packets can be
unauthenticated network traffic.
UI:N -No victim user action is required during exploitation. Packet
receipt and NAPI RX processing occur automatically on the running
interface.
S:U -The impact remains within the same kernel and host security
authority. This is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or cross-scope
boundary violation.
C:N -The bug is an unrecycled page-pool buffer leak on XDP_DROP,
not an out-of-bounds access, use-after-free, or information
disclosure. No attacker-readable data is exposed by this flaw.
I:N -The leak does not corrupt memory or provide a write primitive.
It only loses references to RX pages that should have been returned
to the page pool.
A:H -Each dropped packet in the affected mode can permanently leak
a page, and sustained unauthenticated traffic can drive the system
into OOM. On embedded or network-gateway deployments this can cause
loss of service, process termination, watchdog reset, or system
unavailability.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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