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CVE-2026-63970

HIGH 7.8

vsock/virtio: bind uarg before filling zerocopy skb

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: bind uarg before filling zerocopy skb virtio_transport_send_pkt_info() allocates or reuses the zerocopy uarg before entering the send loop, but virtio_transport_alloc_skb() still fills the skb before it inherits that uarg. When fixed-buffer vectored zerocopy hits MAX_SKB_FRAGS, io_sg_from_iter() may partially attach managed frags and return -EMSGSIZE. The rollback path call kfree_skb() to free an skb that carries SKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS but no uarg, so skb_release_data() falls through to ordinary frag unref. Pass the uarg into virtio_transport_alloc_skb() and bind it immediately before virtio_transport_fill_skb(). This keeps control or no-payload skbs untouched while ensuring success and rollback share one lifetime rule.

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Product linux
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Published Jul 19, 2026
Last Updated Aug 5, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
581512a6dc939ef122e49336626ae159f3b8a345 < 72194f65050958e4c8e069adb6c5d89ef81ca197 581512a6dc939ef122e49336626ae159f3b8a345 < b62e2b2b4a50953ca952f3cd3f77dd62dc50fd5d 581512a6dc939ef122e49336626ae159f3b8a345 < 5d317573f1d48e76cce5fb6250452b6e4102e0fb 581512a6dc939ef122e49336626ae159f3b8a345 < 1e584c304cfb94a759417130b1fc6d30b30c4cce
Linux / Linux
6.7

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72194f65050958e4c8e069adb6c5d89ef81ca197 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b62e2b2b4a50953ca952f3cd3f77dd62dc50fd5d git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d317573f1d48e76cce5fb6250452b6e4102e0fb git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e584c304cfb94a759417130b1fc6d30b30c4cce