# 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-2026-80977"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:38.862Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:01.788Z"
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-2026-80977"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80977.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80977"
title: "net: skbuff: don't touch shared zerocopy state in skb_tx_error()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: skbuff: don't touch shared zerocopy state in skb_tx_error()\n\nskb_tx_error() completes the zerocopy uarg and clears\nSKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY, and skb_zcopy_downgrade_managed() clears\nSKBFL_MANAGED_FRAG_REFS. Both live in skb_shinfo(), which every clone\nshares, while the caller only owns the reference it is about to drop.\nThrough a clone it tells the producer its pages are free and drops\nSKBFL_SHARED_FRAG for an skb that is still in flight.\n\nOpen vSwitch reaches this with a non-last OVS_ACTION_ATTR_RECIRC:\nclone_execute() sends a skb_clone() into ovs_dp_process_packet() while\ndo_execute_actions() keeps forwarding the original, and skb_clone()\ndoes not privatise the frags here -- skb_orphan_frags() returns early\non SKBFL_DONT_ORPHAN. A flow miss on the clone then strips the marker\nfrom the packet still being forwarded, and a later local ESP delivery\ndecrypts in place over frags it does not own privately.\n\nSkip it for a cloned skb. Nothing is lost: skb_release_data() clears\nthe zerocopy state once the last reference to the shared data goes."
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