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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23057"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:07:40.550Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:59:10.131Z"
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-2026-23057"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23057.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23057"
title: "vsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/virtio: Coalesce only linear skb\n\nvsock/virtio common tries to coalesce buffers in rx queue: if a linear skb\n(with a spare tail room) is followed by a small skb (length limited by\nGOOD_COPY_LEN = 128), an attempt is made to join them.\n\nSince the introduction of MSG_ZEROCOPY support, assumption that a small skb\nwill always be linear is incorrect. In the zerocopy case, data is lost and\nthe linear skb is appended with uninitialized kernel memory.\n\nOf all 3 supported virtio-based transports, only loopback-transport is\naffected. G2H virtio-transport rx queue operates on explicitly linear skbs;\nsee virtio_vsock_alloc_linear_skb() in virtio_vsock_rx_fill(). H2G\nvhost-transport may allocate non-linear skbs, but only for sizes that are\nnot considered for coalescence; see PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER in\nvirtio_vsock_alloc_skb().\n\nEnsure only linear skbs are coalesced. Note that skb_tailroom(last_skb) \u003e 0\nguarantees last_skb is linear."
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