CVE-2026-99062

Published: Ott 23, 2026 Last Modified: Ott 23, 2026
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Description

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

vsock/virtio: account only unread bytes in read_skb()

After a partial stream receive, rx_bytes tracks the unread suffix while
buf_used and peer credit still cover the whole packet.
virtio_transport_read_skb() dequeues that packet but passes pkt_len for
both counters, underflowing rx_bytes.

On a connected CID_LOCAL stream with an SK_SKB verdict, a 40-byte read
from a 100-byte packet made SIOCINQ report -40, an empty recv return
ELOOP, and poll report the empty socket readable. After verdict detach,
receiving 40 bytes wrapped the counter to zero and hid those queued bytes
until one more byte arrived. The fixed run kept the counter balanced
and exposed all queued data immediately.

This was found during an LLM-assisted manual source audit of VSOCK
receive accounting while re-evaluating virtio_transport_read_skb() after
CVE-2024-50169.

Subtract only skb->len minus the VSOCK offset from rx_bytes. Retain the
full packet length for buf_used and peer credit.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38bad3930b1185dd6c98db3dd342ddc123c6f3ef
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a463f55c791b96cfd12df8b10ea737d45c80bb18
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd4b2f88ee517f9629d0d3dbfced02ffbc33e2dc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a0028b0d54b2c45e1dc8c0dd95fe3e9236f55b