CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89487
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
openvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop
queue_userspace_packet() borrows the packet skb -- it only copies it into
a private netlink message (user_skb) and does not own it; on return
do_execute_actions() keeps forwarding it through the flow's remaining
actions. Its error path nevertheless calls skb_tx_error(skb), which via
skb_zcopy_clear() does skb_shinfo(skb)->flags &= ~SKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY,
stripping SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG from that live skb (skb_tx_error()'s kerneldoc
says "skb must be freed afterwards").
For a MSG_ZEROCOPY skb carrying page-cache frags, SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG is
what makes esp_input() skb_cow_data() before in-place AEAD; once it is
stripped a later local ESP-in-UDP delivery decrypts in place over pages
the sender does not own -- an unprivileged page-cache write (the
"Fragnesia" primitive).
do_execute_actions() ignores output_userspace()'s return value, so any
action after a failed USERSPACE upcall inherits the stripped skb.
Move the skb_tx_error() to the flow-miss drop path - the "default"
branch of ovs_dp_process_packet()'s switch(error), before kfree_skb().
The call has been here since commit 36d5fe6a0007 ("core, nfqueue,
openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy and handle errors") but was
harmless until esp_input() began relying on SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG to gate
in-place decrypt; only then did stripping it on a still-forwarded skb
become a page-cache write primitive.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dbc2398fca3bb33eda963849f865ddb1b3aa05e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4477222e2916a18e273edc139c955ade6bbb7a69 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48db11e115d1b232edc5591604adc6eda95cd545 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d5c460ef8754be1d43b16dbf02695b008b207d6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d85eef222cfd28e73deed7402c100229e8b9e6e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5de5d554141a15b3f1f5c978fd9f7f4fd6d0600a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6767d70cf46f65807a6a4c4406a518e6c12e36ae git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41a59fc056f63a7a1f42788913c53cc48d744aa git.kernel.org