CVE-2026-23262 — Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 18
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change
The driver and the NIC share a region in memory for stats reporting.
The NIC calculates its offset into this region based on the total size
of the stats region and the size of the NIC's stats.
When the number of queues is changed, the driver's stats region is
resized. If the queue count is increased, the NIC can write past
the end of the allocated stats region, causing me…
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux24aeb56f2d38edf1b324bdb4f8bc6faf9f0f540c — f432f7613c220db32c2c6942420daf7b3f2e7d7e+7
🔴Vulnerability Details
4OSV▶
CVE-2026-23262: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change The driver and the NIC shar↗2026-03-18
GHSA▶
GHSA-2rm5-c5x9-v5x4: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change
The driver and the NIC sh↗2026-03-18