CVE-2026-80977 (GCVE-0-2026-80977)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:42 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:46
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
net: skbuff: don't touch shared zerocopy state in skb_tx_error()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: skbuff: don't touch shared zerocopy state in skb_tx_error()
skb_tx_error() completes the zerocopy uarg and clears
SKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY, and skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed() clears
SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS. Both live in skb_shinfo(), which every clone
shares, while the caller only owns the reference it is about to drop.
Through a clone it tells the producer its pages are free and drops
SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG for an skb that is still in flight.
Open vSwitch reaches this with a non-last OVS_ACTION_ATTR_RECIRC:
clone_execute() sends a skb_clone() into ovs_dp_process_packet() while
do_execute_actions() keeps forwarding the original, and skb_clone()
does not privatise the frags here -- skb_orphan_frags() returns early
on SKBFL_DONT_ORPHAN. A flow miss on the clone then strips the marker
from the packet still being forwarded, and a later local ESP delivery
decrypts in place over frags it does not own privately.
Skip it for a cloned skb. Nothing is lost: skb_release_data() clears
the zerocopy state once the last reference to the shared data goes.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-16 19:21 UTC
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < 6493165034bca14033bf49c9cec7b45e97a91497
(git)
Affected: 25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < b4452349dcf4d561e13be768d5d278de58248930 (git) Affected: 25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < 363c4252ffc473a0203e91b83ede5519dfb8bd07 (git) Affected: 25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < 6ec22afc82a3cae07ade0a6ec361ae2532128ff5 (git) Affected: 25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < 15aa81b390d401abf4b8211042470e9e92e3b7fb (git) Affected: 25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < 288f9970670841044ab030104fa6b6ed159949d0 (git) Affected: 25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < 0370da114a9bc044e248b85c6809d1b5e0c1f7f9 (git) Affected: 25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba , < f66bdb1cc0fcd227a062378f8be0b5873aa5600a (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
3.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.8 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.270 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.221 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.188 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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