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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-52943" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T09:00:12.292Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:47:08.739Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-52943" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52943.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52943" title: "net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers\n\npskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() both copy\nthe old skb_shared_info header into a new buffer via memcpy(), which\nincludes the destructor_arg pointer (uarg) for MSG_ZEROCOPY skbs.\nNeither function calls net_zcopy_get() for the new shinfo, creating an\nunaccounted holder: every skb_shared_info with destructor_arg set will\ncall skb_zcopy_clear() once when freed, but the corresponding\nnet_zcopy_get() was never called for the new copy. Repeated calls\ndrive uarg-\u003erefcnt to zero prematurely, freeing ubuf_info_msgzc while\nTX skbs still hold live destructor_arg pointers.\n\nKASAN reports use-after-free on a freed ubuf_info_msgzc:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_release_data+0x77b/0x810\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801574d3e8 by task poc/220\n\n Call Trace:\n skb_release_data+0x77b/0x810\n kfree_skb_list_reason+0x13e/0x610\n skb_release_data+0x4cd/0x810\n sk_skb_reason_drop+0xf3/0x340\n skb_queue_purge_reason+0x282/0x440\n rds_tcp_inc_free+0x1e/0x30\n rds_recvmsg+0x354/0x1780\n __sys_recvmsg+0xdf/0x180\n\n Allocated by task 219:\n msg_zerocopy_realloc+0x157/0x7b0\n tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x2892/0x3ba0\n\n Freed by task 219:\n ip_recv_error+0x74a/0xb10\n tcp_recvmsg+0x475/0x530\n\nThe skb consuming the late access still referenced the same uarg via\nshinfo-\u003edestructor_arg copied by pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() without\na refcount bump. This has been verified to be reliably exploitable: a\nworking proof-of-concept achieves full root privilege escalation from\nan unprivileged local user on a default kernel configuration.\n\nThe fix follows the pattern of pskb_expand_head() which has the same\nmemcpy/cloned structure. For pskb_carve_inside_header(), net_zcopy_get()\nis placed after skb_orphan_frags() succeeds, so the orphan error path\nneeds no cleanup. For pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear(), net_zcopy_get() is\nplaced after all failure points and just before skb_release_data(), so\nno error path needs cleanup at all -- matching pskb_expand_head() more\nclosely and avoiding the need for a balancing net_zcopy_put()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8dbed691e43a50903658130bde0fcb5abc425b37"},{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b40bdc2a3298225dffab8158208a0d8c6300578"},{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd470f0a97b8e9a125f520265d2f3b088ffb5b8a"},{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ceafb893b12f23331dcc5ff9587e643c3a40ee9f"},{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e0e74c59b2761a414d9f48d7bee1e45220b2427"},{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96a4713ae041cc85e712bac682cd2e644004d6c6"},{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"474d6c771d798bca84f0a140b611e36743511e18"},{"version":"6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98d0912e9f841e5529a5b89a972805f34cb1c69d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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