CVE-2026-99284

Published: November 9, 2026Last modified: November 9, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker in skb_zerocopy() skb_zerocopy() moves frag descriptors from @from into @to and takes a reference on each frag, but it does not copy skb_shinfo(from)->flags into skb_shinfo(to)->flags. A destination skb holding the same page-cache backed frags as the source therefore reports skb_has_shared_frag() as false. That breaks the invariant relied on by later in-place writers. ESP input checks skb_has_shared_frag() before deciding whether an uncloned nonlinear skb can skip skb_cow_data(); with the marker lost, an skb that skb_zerocopy() built for nfnetlink_queue or for an openvswitch upcall is decrypted in place, letting an unprivileged user write into the page cache of a root-owned read-only file. Propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG when frag descriptors are copied, as done for the other frag-transfer helpers.

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a9c180cd8435917b7516edfb1c9148032c28773
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c623e3cbf43f12dd4a72712079bfa247a9b8ba3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79dc34beb1fdb3da79753e51e15c68591a2561fe
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d6ff98d5d1b400f02211f962ac32cc0020aeab