CVE-2026-53250 (GCVE-0-2026-53250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 08:39 – Updated: 2026-06-28 06:40
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Title
xsk: cache csum_start/csum_offset to fix TOCTOU in xsk_skb_metadata()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: cache csum_start/csum_offset to fix TOCTOU in xsk_skb_metadata() The TX metadata area resides in the UMEM buffer which is memory-mapped and concurrently writable by userspace. In xsk_skb_metadata(), csum_start and csum_offset are read from shared memory for bounds validation, then read again for skb assignment. A malicious userspace application can race to overwrite these values between the two reads, bypassing the bounds check and causing out-of-bounds memory access during checksum computation in the transmit path. Fix this by reading csum_start and csum_offset into local variables once, then using the local copies for both validation and assignment. Note that other metadata fields (flags, launch_time) and the cached csum fields may be mutually inconsistent due to concurrent userspace writes, but this is benign: the only security-critical invariant is that each field's validated value is the same one used, which local caching guarantees.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 48eb03dd26304c24f03bdbb9382e89c8564e71df , < 0dfe05b938435892875e07771170051346412df9 (git)
Affected: 48eb03dd26304c24f03bdbb9382e89c8564e71df , < bfdfd2706d5fb2cd496a1506e680daf979309c8b (git)
Affected: 48eb03dd26304c24f03bdbb9382e89c8564e71df , < 22ba97ea9cc1f63a0d0244fae38057ed452b6ac7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.36 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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