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Exploração desconhecida; este catálogo não avalia exploração. ## Fatos da fonte (dados citados em JSON) Texto da CNA em inglês id: "CVE-2026-23086" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:08:10.047Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:30.062Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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/pt/cve/CVE-2026-23086" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23086.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23086" title: "vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size\n\nThe virtio transports derives its TX credit directly from peer_buf_alloc,\nwhich is set from the remote endpoint's SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_SIZE value.\n\nOn the host side this means that the amount of data we are willing to\nqueue for a connection is scaled by a guest-chosen buffer size, rather\nthan the host's own vsock configuration. A malicious guest can advertise\na large buffer and read slowly, causing the host to allocate a\ncorrespondingly large amount of sk_buff memory.\nThe same thing would happen in the guest with a malicious host, since\nvirtio transports share the same code base.\n\nIntroduce a small helper, virtio_transport_tx_buf_size(), that\nreturns min(peer_buf_alloc, buf_alloc), and use it wherever we consume\npeer_buf_alloc.\n\nThis ensures the effective TX window is bounded by both the peer's\nadvertised buffer and our own buf_alloc (already clamped to\nbuffer_max_size via SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE), so a remote peer\ncannot force the other to queue more data than allowed by its own\nvsock settings.\n\nOn an unpatched Ubuntu 22.04 host (~64 GiB RAM), running a PoC with\n32 guest vsock connections advertising 2 GiB each and reading slowly\ndrove Slab/SUnreclaim from ~0.5 GiB to ~57 GiB; the system only\nrecovered after killing the QEMU process. That said, if QEMU memory is\nlimited with cgroups, the maximum memory used will be limited.\n\nWith this patch applied:\n\n Before:\n MemFree: ~61.6 GiB\n Slab: ~142 MiB\n SUnreclaim: ~117 MiB\n\n After 32 high-credit connections:\n MemFree: ~61.5 GiB\n Slab: ~178 MiB\n SUnreclaim: ~152 MiB\n\nOnly ~35 MiB increase in Slab/SUnreclaim, no host OOM, and the guest\nremains responsive.\n\nCompatibility with non-virtio transports:\n\n - VMCI uses the AF_VSOCK buffer knobs to size its queue pairs per\n socket based on the local vsk-\u003ebuffer_* values; the remote side\n cannot enlarge those queues beyond what the local endpoint\n configured.\n\n - Hyper-V's vsock transport uses fixed-size VMBus ring buffers and\n an MTU bound; there is no peer-controlled credit field comparable\n to peer_buf_alloc, and the remote endpoint cannot drive in-flight\n kernel memory above those ring sizes.\n\n - The loopback path reuses virtio_transport_common.c, so it\n naturally follows the same semantics as the virtio transport.\n\nThis change is limited to virtio_transport_common.c and thus affects\nvirtio-vsock, vhost-vsock, and loopback, bringing them in line with the\n\"remote window intersected with local policy\" behaviour that VMCI and\nHyper-V already effectively have.\n\n[Stefano: small adjustments after changing the previous patch]\n[Stefano: tweak the commit message]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fef7110ae5617555c792a2bb4d27878d84583adf"},{"version":"06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9d5f222558b42f6277eafaaa6080966faf37676"},{"version":"06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0e42fb0e054c2b2ec4ee80f48ccd256ae0227ce"},{"version":"06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84ef86aa7120449828d1e0ce438c499014839711"},{"version":"06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ee784fdf006cbe8739cfa093f54d326cbf54037"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"6.1.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.122","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.68","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Licenças e atribuição das fontes 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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