CVE-2026-22994: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp() syzbot is reporting unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit0 to become free. Usage count = 2 problem. A debug printk() patch found that a refcount is obtained at xdp_convert_md_to_buff() from bpf_prog_test_run_xdp(). According to commit ec94670fcb3b ("bpf: Support specifying ingress via xdp_md context in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN"), the refcount obtained by xdp_convert_md_to_buff() will be released by xdp_convert_buff_to_md(). Therefore, we can consider that the error handling path introduced by commit 1c1949982524 ("bpf: introduce frags support to bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()") forgot to call xdp_convert_buff_to_md().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.18, before 6.1.161 (fixed in 6.1.161); from 6.2, before 6.6.121 (fixed in 6.6.121); from 6.7, before 6.12.66 (fixed in 6.12.66); from 6.13, before 6.18.6 (fixed in 6.18.6); version 6.19 only

Published 2026-01-23. Last modified 2026-07-14.