# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64552"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-27T20:10:40.570Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:40.599Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64552"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64552.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64552"
title: "virtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio-net: fix len check in receive_big()\n\nreceive_big() bounds the device-announced length by\n(big_packets_num_skbfrags + 1) * PAGE_SIZE.  That is still too loose:\nadd_recvbuf_big() sets sg[1] to start at offset\nsizeof(struct padded_vnet_hdr) into the first page, so the chain\nactually carries hdr_len + (PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(padded_vnet_hdr)) +\nbig_packets_num_skbfrags * PAGE_SIZE bytes -- 20 bytes less than the\ncheck allows for the common hdr_len == 12 case.\n\nA malicious virtio backend can announce a len in that gap.  page_to_skb()\nthen walks one frag past the page chain, storing a NULL page-\u003eprivate\ninto skb_shinfo()-\u003efrags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS], which is both an out-of-bounds\nwrite past the static frag array and a NULL frag handed up the rx path.\n\nBound len by the size add_recvbuf_big() actually advertised."
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