CVE-2026-53365CWE-401CWE-404

CVE-2026-53365

Medium · published July 13, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vsock/virtio: fix zerocopy completion for multi-skb sends

When a large message is fragmented into multiple skbs, the zerocopy

uarg is only allocated and attached to the last skb in the loop.

Non-final skbs carry pinned user pages with no completion tracking,

so the kernel has no way to notify userspace when those pages are safe

to reuse. If the loop breaks early the uarg is never allocated at all,

leaking pinned pages with no completion notification.

Fix this by following the approach used by TCP: allocate the zerocopy

uarg (if not provided by the caller) before the send loop and attach

it to every skb via skb_zcopy_set(), which takes a reference per skb.

Each skb's completion properly decrements the refcount, and the

notification only fires after the last skb is freed.

On failure, if no data was sent, the uarg is cleanly aborted via

net_zcopy_put_abort().

This issue was initially discovered by sashiko while reviewing commit

1cb36e252211 ("vsock/virtio: fix MSG_ZEROCOPY pinned-pages accounting")

but was pre-existing.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime; CWE-404 · Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
Published
2026-07-13T22:16Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.18.346.18.34
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 7.0.117.0.11
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 JUL 17:33Z
    vsock/virtio: fix zerocopy completion for multi-skb sends
    cvelistv5