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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-22977" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-21T13:08:54.858Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:25.873Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-22977" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-22977.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22977" title: "net: sock: fix hardened usercopy panic in sock_recv_errqueue" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: sock: fix hardened usercopy panic in sock_recv_errqueue\n\nskbuff_fclone_cache was created without defining a usercopy region,\n[1] unlike skbuff_head_cache which properly whitelists the cb[] field.\n[2] This causes a usercopy BUG() when CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is\nenabled and the kernel attempts to copy sk_buff.cb data to userspace\nvia sock_recv_errqueue() -\u003e put_cmsg().\n\nThe crash occurs when: 1. TCP allocates an skb using alloc_skb_fclone()\n (from skbuff_fclone_cache) [1]\n2. The skb is cloned via skb_clone() using the pre-allocated fclone\n[3] 3. The cloned skb is queued to sk_error_queue for timestamp\nreporting 4. Userspace reads the error queue via recvmsg(MSG_ERRQUEUE)\n5. sock_recv_errqueue() calls put_cmsg() to copy serr-\u003eee from skb-\u003ecb\n[4] 6. __check_heap_object() fails because skbuff_fclone_cache has no\n usercopy whitelist [5]\n\nWhen cloned skbs allocated from skbuff_fclone_cache are used in the\nsocket error queue, accessing the sock_exterr_skb structure in skb-\u003ecb\nvia put_cmsg() triggers a usercopy hardening violation:\n\n[ 5.379589] usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'skbuff_fclone_cache' (offset 296, size 16)!\n[ 5.382796] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!\n[ 5.383923] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n[ 5.384903] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 138 Comm: poc_put_cmsg Not tainted 6.12.57 #7\n[ 5.384903] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[ 5.384903] RIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0x6c/0x80\n[ 5.384903] Code: 1a 86 51 48 c7 c2 40 15 1a 86 41 52 48 c7 c7 c0 15 1a 86 48 0f 45 d6 48 c7 c6 80 15 1a 86 48 89 c1 49 0f 45 f3 e8 84 27 88 ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b 490\n[ 5.384903] RSP: 0018:ffffc900006f77a8 EFLAGS: 00010246\n[ 5.384903] RAX: 000000000000006f RBX: ffff88800f0ad2a8 RCX: 1ffffffff0f72e74\n[ 5.384903] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffffffff87b973a0\n[ 5.384903] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff0f72e74\n[ 5.384903] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 79706f6372657375 R12: 0000000000000001\n[ 5.384903] R13: ffff88800f0ad2b8 R14: ffffea00003c2b40 R15: ffffea00003c2b00\n[ 5.384903] FS: 0000000011bc4380(0000) GS:ffff8880bf100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 5.384903] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 5.384903] CR2: 000056aa3b8e5fe4 CR3: 000000000ea26004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0\n[ 5.384903] PKRU: 55555554\n[ 5.384903] Call Trace:\n[ 5.384903] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 5.384903] __check_heap_object+0x9a/0xd0\n[ 5.384903] __check_object_size+0x46c/0x690\n[ 5.384903] put_cmsg+0x129/0x5e0\n[ 5.384903] sock_recv_errqueue+0x22f/0x380\n[ 5.384903] tls_sw_recvmsg+0x7ed/0x1960\n[ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 5.384903] ? schedule+0x6d/0x270\n[ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 5.384903] ? mutex_unlock+0x81/0xd0\n[ 5.384903] ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10\n[ 5.384903] ? __pfx_tls_sw_recvmsg+0x10/0x10\n[ 5.384903] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x8f/0xf0\n[ 5.384903] ? _raw_read_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40\n[ 5.384903] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n\nThe crash offset 296 corresponds to skb2-\u003ecb within skbuff_fclones:\n - sizeof(struct sk_buff) = 232 - offsetof(struct sk_buff, cb) = 40 -\n offset of skb2.cb in fclones = 232 + 40 = 272 - crash offset 296 =\n 272 + 24 (inside sock_exterr_skb.ee)\n\nThis patch uses a local stack variable as a bounce buffer to avoid the hardened usercopy check failure.\n\n[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/ipv4/tcp.c#L885\n[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5104\n[3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5566\n[4] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/net/core/skbuff.c#L5491\n[5] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.12.62/source/mm/slub.c#L5719" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88dd6be7ebb3153b662c2cebcb06e032a92857f5"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c655d2167bf014d4c61b4faeca59b60ff9b9f6b1"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c6901aa29626e35045130bac09b75f791acca85"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"582a5e922a9652fcbb7d0165c95d5b20aa37575d"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"005671c60fcf1dbdb8bddf12a62568fd5e4ec391"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e00b169eaac5f7cdbf710c354c8fa76d02009115"},{"version":"6d07d1cd300f4c7e16005f881fea388164999cc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a71a1a8d0ed718b1c7a9ac61f07e5755c47ae20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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