# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53181"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:38:55.994Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:22:34.587Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53181"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53181.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53181"
title: "vsock/vmci: fix sk_ack_backlog leak on failed handshake"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/vmci: fix sk_ack_backlog leak on failed handshake\n\nWhen vmci_transport_recv_connecting_server() returns an error,\nvmci_transport_recv_listen() calls vsock_remove_pending() but never\ncalls sk_acceptq_removed(). This leaves sk_ack_backlog incremented\npermanently.\n\nRepeated handshake failures (malformed packets, queue pair alloc\nfailure, event subscribe failure) cause sk_ack_backlog to climb\ntoward sk_max_ack_backlog. Once it reaches the limit the listener\npermanently refuses all new connections with -ECONNREFUSED, a\nsilent denial of service requiring a process restart to recover.\n\nThe two existing sk_acceptq_removed() calls in af_vsock.c do not\ncover this path: line 764 checks vsock_is_pending() which returns\nfalse after vsock_remove_pending(), and line 1889 is only reached\non successful accept().\n\nFix by balancing sk_acceptq_added() with sk_acceptq_removed() on\nthe error path."
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