Remote packet-reception halt via unrecycled XSK buffers
Published May 17, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Memory leak in the AF_XDP receive path in Linux allows remote attackers to halt packet reception by filling a zero-copy Rx queue. When __xsk_rcv_zc() cannot publish a descriptor because the receive ring is full, the failure path omits xsk_buff_free(), permanently removing a chunk from the socket's fixed UMEM pool. An AF_XDP application with zero-copy receive processing must already be bound to the targeted interface and queue; sustained inbound traffic can exhaust that queue's pool and stop reception until the application restarts.
Summary
What happened
Memory leak in the AF_XDP receive path in Linux allows remote attackers to halt packet reception by filling a zero-copy Rx queue. When __xsk_rcv_zc() cannot publish a descriptor because the receive ring is full, the failure path omits xsk_buff_free(), permanently removing a chunk from the socket's fixed UMEM pool. An AF_XDP application with zero-copy receive processing must already be bound to the targeted interface and queue; sustained inbound traffic can exhaust that queue's pool and stop reception until the application restarts.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-35834
- Published
- May 17, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-401, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- May 17, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=24ea50127ecf0efe819c1f6230add27abc6ca9d9 <269009893146c495f41e9572dd9319e787c2eba9
- Affected versionversion=24ea50127ecf0efe819c1f6230add27abc6ca9d9 <7b4d93d31aade99210d41cd9d4cbd2957c98bc8c
- Affected versionversion=24ea50127ecf0efe819c1f6230add27abc6ca9d9 <cce713664548284daf977739e7ff1cd59e84189c
- Affected versionversion=6.6
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