CVE-2026-72393: linux
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-72393 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 6Timeline
- 15-08-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 17-08-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: fbnic: don't cache shinfo across skb realloc fbnic_tx_lso() calls skb_cow_head() which may reallocate the skb including the shared info. We can't use the pointer calculated before the call. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0 Read of size 4 at addr ff110000262edd98 by task swapper/5/0 Call Trace: fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x668/0x8e0 fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620 Allocated by task 8653: __alloc_skb+0x11e/0x5f0 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xcc/0x6c0 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x327/0x3f0 __ip_append_data+0x188b/0x47a0 ip_make_skb+0x24a/0x300 udp_sendmsg+0x14d2/0x21e0 Freed by task 0: kfree+0x123/0x5a0 pskb_expand_head+0x36c/0xfa0 fbnic_tx_lso.isra.0+0x500/0x8e0 fbnic_xmit_frame+0x622/0xba0 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf4/0x620 sch_direct_xmit+0x25b/0x1100 The buggy address belongs to the object at ff110000262edc40 which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 640 The buggy address is located 344 bytes inside of freed 640-byte region [ff110000262edc40, ff110000262ede
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated9.8CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated9.8CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST9.8CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.63%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
49%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.05 pp
From 0.58% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu120 products
- linux< 7.0.0-34.34
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 7.0.0-1013.13
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- linux< 7.1.5-1
Linux1 product
- linux≥ b0b0f52042acb324cd39fbefb2b1ae83af8f8ae1, < 83df3e2594cd78aa40b1246a19879abb4891945b | ≥ b0b0f52042acb324cd39fbefb2b1ae83af8f8ae1, < 21f304c2aae46625e050c28d979f4b9d83faa85e | ≥ b0b0f52042acb324cd39fbefb2b1ae83af8f8ae1, < 62b68b774f06bf52e329f254f0199bc43d350ccf | 6.15
3 vendors · 122 products