# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53223"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:24.588Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:57:29.682Z"
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-2026-53223"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53223.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53223"
title: "net: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: guard timestamp cmsgs to real error queue skbs\n\nskb_is_err_queue() treats PACKET_OUTGOING as the sole marker for an skb\nfrom sk_error_queue. That assumption is not true for AF_PACKET sockets:\noutgoing packet taps are also delivered to packet sockets with\nskb-\u003epkt_type == PACKET_OUTGOING, but their skb-\u003ecb is owned by AF_PACKET\ninstead of struct sock_exterr_skb.\n\nIf such an skb is received with timestamping enabled, the generic\ntimestamp cmsg path can read AF_PACKET control-buffer state as\nsock_exterr_skb::opt_stats. With SO_RXQ_OVFL enabled, the packet drop\ncounter overlaps opt_stats. An odd drop count makes the path emit\nSCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS with skb-\u003elen and skb-\u003edata. For non-linear\nskbs this copies past the linear head and can trigger hardened usercopy or\ndisclose adjacent heap contents.\n\nKeep skb_is_err_queue() local to net/socket.c, but make it verify that\nthe PACKET_OUTGOING marker is paired with the sock_rmem_free destructor\ninstalled by sock_queue_err_skb(). AF_PACKET receive skbs use normal\nreceive ownership and no longer pass as error-queue skbs, while legitimate\nsk_error_queue entries keep the PACKET_OUTGOING marker and sock_rmem_free\nownership."
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