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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97985" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:20.173Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:57.548Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97985" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97985.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97985" title: "af_unix: Update last skb marker in manage_oob()." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Update last skb marker in manage_oob().\n\nFahad Alharbi reported that blocking recv(MSG_PEEK) could hog CPU\ndue to OOB skb.\n\nIn the following cases, manage_oob() skips OOB skb(s) and returns\nNULL for the last recv(MSG_PEEK):\n\n socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sk);\n\n 1) skb -\u003e OOB skb -\u003e NULL\n send(sk[0], \"ab\", 2, MSG_OOB);\n recv(sk[1], buf, 0, MSG_PEEK);\n\n 2) skb -\u003e consumed OOB skb -\u003e NULL\n send(sk[0], \"ab\", 2, MSG_OOB);\n recv(sk[1], buf, 1, MSG_OOB);\n recv(sk[1], buf, 0, MSG_PEEK);\n\n 3) consumed OOB skb -\u003e OOB skb -\u003e NULL\n send(sk[0], \"a\", 1, MSG_OOB);\n recv(sk[1], buf, 0, MSG_OOB);\n send(sk[0], \"b\", 1, MSG_OOB);\n recv(sk[1], buf, 1, MSG_PEEK);\n\nThen, @copied is 0 in unix_stream_read_generic() (zero-length buffer,\nor non-OOB skb is not yet consumed), and unix_stream_data_wait() is\ncalled.\n\nHowever, it returns immediately because @last is not updated in\nunix_stream_read_generic(), and the thread busy-waits for a new skb.\n\nLet's update @last in manage_oob().\n\nFor MSG_PEEK, @last is updated with the skipped OOB, and for the\nnon-peek case, @last matches the returned value (when !copied)\nbecause OOB is unlinked.\n\nNote that manage_oob() is inlined and no stack canary is added." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"022d81a709cd553bbe2db8675f8e824f4aee6284","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bd91dc313afe21e9d6b31ca6a47606a33ca5e35c"},{"version":"22dd70eb2c3d754862964377a75abafd3167346b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0630bfc773d85ac44da05b2c5a037dbbd39301ab"},{"version":"22dd70eb2c3d754862964377a75abafd3167346b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1816b3d7ce80dcf086bb68ff5ae6e09520ca1fa"},{"version":"22dd70eb2c3d754862964377a75abafd3167346b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc62a26493a98a0424d9dae2eb92a1daa1321f65"},{"version":"22dd70eb2c3d754862964377a75abafd3167346b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94fd4debd2e3a69cf93e766c8b328a810c228119"},{"version":"ae3f9e1221b31b18dbd4c4b85d08574996bbd973","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ba0db4638525b8b054b3d546b45f7e473f477027","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"16dc252e7007547a7b72a2c21022ef81fb45e6a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.29","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"5.15.157","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.88","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.8.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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