SUSE CVE-2026-31429

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head SKBSMALLHEADCACHESIZE is intentionally set to a non-power-of-2 value e.g. 704 on x8664 to avoid collisions with generic kmalloc bucket sizes. This ensures that...

CVE-2026-31429

Summary (supported): CVE-2026-31429 affects the Linux kernel, specifically a KFENCE interaction that caused a cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb heads. The root cause was that kfence_ksize() could return the exact allocation size, leading to skb_end_offset matching SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM a...