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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89487"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:40.776Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:47:37.837Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89487"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89487.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89487"
title: "openvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nopenvswitch: only skb_tx_error() a packet we are about to drop\n\nqueue_userspace_packet() borrows the packet skb -- it only copies it into\na private netlink message (user_skb) and does not own it; on return\ndo_execute_actions() keeps forwarding it through the flow's remaining\nactions. Its error path nevertheless calls skb_tx_error(skb), which via\nskb_zcopy_clear() does skb_shinfo(skb)-\u003eflags &= ~SKBFL_ALL_ZEROCOPY,\nstripping SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG from that live skb (skb_tx_error()'s kerneldoc\nsays \"skb must be freed afterwards\").\n\nFor a MSG_ZEROCOPY skb carrying page-cache frags, SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG is\nwhat makes esp_input() skb_cow_data() before in-place AEAD; once it is\nstripped a later local ESP-in-UDP delivery decrypts in place over pages\nthe sender does not own -- an unprivileged page-cache write (the\n\"Fragnesia\" primitive).\ndo_execute_actions() ignores output_userspace()'s return value, so any\naction after a failed USERSPACE upcall inherits the stripped skb.\n\nMove the skb_tx_error() to the flow-miss drop path - the \"default\"\nbranch of ovs_dp_process_packet()'s switch(error), before kfree_skb().\n\nThe call has been here since commit 36d5fe6a0007 (\"core, nfqueue,\nopenvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy and handle errors\") but was\nharmless until esp_input() began relying on SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG to gate\nin-place decrypt; only then did stripping it on a still-forwarded skb\nbecome a page-cache write primitive."
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