# 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-2026-74310"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:10.043Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:32.036Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74310"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74310.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74310"
title: "vhost/net: complete zerocopy ubufs only once"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost/net: complete zerocopy ubufs only once\n\nvhost-net initializes one ubuf_info per outstanding zerocopy TX\ndescriptor and hands it to the backend socket.  The networking stack may\nthen clone a zerocopy skb before all skb references are released.  For\nexample, batman-adv fragmentation reaches skb_split(), which calls\nskb_zerocopy_clone() and increments the same ubuf_info refcount.\n\nvhost_zerocopy_complete() currently treats every ubuf callback as a\ncompleted vhost descriptor.  It dereferences ubuf-\u003ectx, writes the\ndescriptor completion state, and drops the vhost_net_ubuf_ref even when\nthe callback only releases a cloned skb reference.  A backend reset can\ntherefore wait for and free the vhost_net_ubuf_ref while another cloned\nskb still carries the same ubuf_info.  A later completion then\ndereferences the freed ubufs pointer.\n\nKASAN reports the stale completion as:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vhost_zerocopy_complete+0x1d7/0x1f0\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vhost_zerocopy_complete+0x101/0x1f0\n  vhost_zerocopy_complete\n  skb_copy_ubufs\n  __dev_forward_skb2\n  veth_xmit\n\nThe freed object was allocated from vhost_net_ioctl() while setting the\nbackend and freed through kfree_rcu()/kvfree_rcu_bulk after backend\nremoval, while delayed skb completion still reached\nvhost_zerocopy_complete().\n\nHonor the generic ubuf_info refcount before touching vhost state, and run\nthe vhost descriptor completion only for the final ubuf reference.  This\nmatches the msg_zerocopy_complete() ownership rule for cloned zerocopy\nskbs."
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