{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-80977", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-08-26T14:34:25.811Z", "datePublished": "2026-09-11T19:42:38.862Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:46:01.788Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T08:46:01.788Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: skbuff: don't touch shared zerocopy state in skb_tx_error()\n\nskb_tx_error() completes the zerocopy uarg and clears\nSKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY, and skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed() clears\nSKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS. Both live in skb_shinfo(), which every clone\nshares, while the caller only owns the reference it is about to drop.\nThrough a clone it tells the producer its pages are free and drops\nSKBFL_SHARED_FRAG for an skb that is still in flight.\n\nOpen vSwitch reaches this with a non-last OVS_ACTION_ATTR_RECIRC:\nclone_execute() sends a skb_clone() into ovs_dp_process_packet() while\ndo_execute_actions() keeps forwarding the original, and skb_clone()\ndoes not privatise the frags here -- skb_orphan_frags() returns early\non SKBFL_DONT_ORPHAN. A flow miss on the clone then strips the marker\nfrom the packet still being forwarded, and a later local ESP delivery\ndecrypts in place over frags it does not own privately.\n\nSkip it for a cloned skb. Nothing is lost: skb_release_data() clears\nthe zerocopy state once the last reference to the shared data goes." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The buggy state is a locally originated MSG_ZEROCOPY/io_uring TX skb (SKBFL_DONT_ORPHAN plus a uarg); NIC-received packets never carry that marker, and the skb must still be forwarded into local ESP, so a local account is required.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls both sides: OVS flows with a non-last RECIRC, a guaranteed miss/upcall failure on the clone, MSG_ZEROCOPY send, and the ESP SA/payload, so the shared-shinfo strip and in-place decrypt are reliably reproducible with no race beyond attacker influence.\nPR:L - An unprivileged user can enable SO_ZEROCOPY and, via unshare -Urn, obtain CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user+net namespace; OVS genetlink uses GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM and XFRM SAs are likewise namespace-installable, while the global page cache remains the corruption target.\nUI:N - The attacker installs the OVS recirc flow, sends the MSG_ZEROCOPY packet, and completes local ESP delivery without any victim action.\nS:U - The resulting page-cache write and premature zerocopy completion stay inside the host kernel's memory authority as a standard local memory-corruption/LPE primitive and do not cross a VM or IOMMU boundary.\nC:H - skb_tx_error() on the clone completes the shared uarg and clears SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG, so later in-place ESP decrypt (and UAF of still-mapped pages) corrupts globally cached file/code pages and can be leveraged for arbitrary disclosure.\nI:H - With the shared-frag marker stripped, esp_input() skips skb_cow_data() and AEAD-decrypts attacker-controlled plaintext in place over page-cache-backed frags, yielding an unprivileged write into files the sender could only read (the Fragnesia primitive).\nA:H - Use-after-free of zerocopy pages still referenced by the in-flight original skb, plus overwriting page-cache-backed executable or kernel-managed data, causes oopses, panics, and process crashes." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "net/core/skbuff.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba", "lessThan": "6493165034bca14033bf49c9cec7b45e97a91497", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba", "lessThan": "b4452349dcf4d561e13be768d5d278de58248930", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba", "lessThan": "363c4252ffc473a0203e91b83ede5519dfb8bd07", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "25121173f7b1e4ac3fc692df6e7b8c52ec36abba", "lessThan": "6ec22afc82a3cae07ade0a6ec361ae2532128ff5", "status": 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