CVE-2026-98239 PUBLISHED

net: lan743x: fix RX checksum use-after-free

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

net: lan743x: fix RX checksum use-after-free

lan743x_rx_process_buffer() adds each non-first receive buffer to the head skb's frag_list. On the last descriptor, lan743x_rx_trim_skb() linearizes the head and frees the fragment skb metadata.

The checksum-success path then writes ip_summed through the local skb pointer, which still points to the final fragment. This causes a use-after-free write when a packet spans more than one receive buffer.

Set ip_summed on the surviving head skb instead. Multi-buffer receive can occur after a live MTU increase because existing ring entries keep their old buffer size until they are replenished.

A KUnit test invoking lan743x_rx_process_buffer() with a two-buffer packet produced a one-byte KASAN use-after-free write before this change. The same test passed after the change. The driver object also builds with W=1. This was not tested on physical LAN743x hardware.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from cd6910501cfd9a3bdff2f5fc33c9f3cf165ca54a to 0e52886c4324c9897c2c62f92be3dc8316cee67e (excl.)
  • affected from cd6910501cfd9a3bdff2f5fc33c9f3cf165ca54a to a58024835c704419bb46d2a34e5223f65605f958 (excl.)
  • affected from cd6910501cfd9a3bdff2f5fc33c9f3cf165ca54a to 6fe5c3a2503983abb431d93faeadfc7f5e6a7e33 (excl.)
  • affected from cd6910501cfd9a3bdff2f5fc33c9f3cf165ca54a to 5c216bfa9fb7b36804485e67975e9c98055b31ef (excl.)
  • affected from cd6910501cfd9a3bdff2f5fc33c9f3cf165ca54a to 161a403c8625e152de03d1da22bbf9cda6dc9f9f (excl.)
  • affected from cd6910501cfd9a3bdff2f5fc33c9f3cf165ca54a to a9ce4053dc945c5372dedba5017ee675b30dc0c5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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