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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-89487

openvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < 5de5d554141a15b3f1f5c978fd9f7f4fd6d0600aaffected
  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < 48db11e115d1b232edc5591604adc6eda95cd545affected
  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < 4477222e2916a18e273edc139c955ade6bbb7a69affected
  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < 4d5c460ef8754be1d43b16dbf02695b008b207d6affected
  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < 6767d70cf46f65807a6a4c4406a518e6c12e36aeaffected
  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < e41a59fc056f63a7a1f42788913c53cc48d744aaaffected
  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < 5d85eef222cfd28e73deed7402c100229e8b9e6eaffected
  • 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c to < 0dbc2398fca3bb33eda963849f865ddb1b3aa05eaffected
  • c5f0c0e7525443add533495e93ba8de6feab2396affected
  • 1674b4bf3eea3cac51b70778e89f8025f7cfe695affected
  • 3.10.51 to < 3.11affected
  • 3.12.40 to < 3.13affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 3.14affected
  • 0 to < 3.14unaffected
  • 5.10.270 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.221 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.188 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.157 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.109 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.50 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.4 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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