CVE-2026-46300: net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing skb_try_coalesce() can attach paged frags from @from to @to. If @from has SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set, the resulting @to skb can contain the same externally-owned or page-cache-backed frags, but the shared-frag marker is currently lost. That breaks the invariant relied on by later in-place writers. In particular, ESP input checks skb_has_shared_frag() before deciding whether an uncloned nonlinear skb can skip skb_cow_data(). If TCP receive coalescing has moved shared frags into an unmarked skb, ESP can see skb_has_shared_frag() as false and decrypt in place over page-cache backed frags. Propagate SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG when skb_try_coalesce() transfers paged frags. The tailroom copy path does not need the marker because it copies bytes into @to's linear data rather than transferring frag descriptors.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 3599e6b3cc1ada96883d496a50a210d3afbb6987 (from cef401de7be8c4e155c6746bfccf721a4fa5fab9) · < 2f2b16022a2e10ca7bccfb98db5ed2ec0f72641c (from cef401de7be8c4e155c6746bfccf721a4fa5fab9) · < 9d3e5fd19fe1063bf607219e8562fbd567b8e8d5 (from cef401de7be8c4e155c6746bfccf721a4fa5fab9) · < 78bf6b6bb19541d19fbda6242e7cfe2c682763c0 (from cef401de7be8c4e155c6746bfccf721a4fa5fab9) · < 760e1addc27ba1a7beb4a0a7e8b3e9ec49e7a34e (from cef401de7be8c4e155c6746bfccf721a4fa5fab9) · < 3bd9e113d50034db99d7ef69fd8e5242d15e414a (from cef401de7be8c4e155c6746bfccf721a4fa5fab9)
- Linux / Linux3.9Fixed in 0, 5.10.257, 5.15.208, 6.1.174, 6.6.141, 6.12.91, 6.18.33, 7.0.10, 7.1-rc5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H