Bug 2568683 (CVE-2026-99284) - CVE-2026-99284 kernel: kernel: privilege escalation via missing shared fragment flag in skb_zerocopy
Summary: CVE-2026-99284 kernel: kernel: privilege escalation via missing shared fragme...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99284
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-07 20:51 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-07 20:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-07 20:51:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: skbuff: propagate shared-frag marker in skb_zerocopy()

skb_zerocopy() moves frag descriptors from @from into @to and takes a
reference on each frag, but it does not copy skb_shinfo(from)->flags into
skb_shinfo(to)->flags.  A destination skb holding the same page-cache
backed frags as the source therefore reports skb_has_shared_frag() as
false.

That breaks the invariant relied on by later in-place writers.  ESP input
checks skb_has_shared_frag() before deciding whether an uncloned
nonlinear skb can skip skb_cow_data(); with the marker lost, an skb that
skb_zerocopy() built for nfnetlink_queue or for an openvswitch upcall is
decrypted in place, letting an unprivileged user write into the page
cache of a root-owned read-only file.

Propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG when frag descriptors are copied, as done for
the other frag-transfer helpers.


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