CVE-2026-98850
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/packet: prevent TX_RING byte count overflow tpacket_snd() drains e
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Published: Oct 18, 2026 · Last modified: Oct 19, 2026
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/packet: prevent TX_RING byte count overflow tpacket_snd() drains every SEND_REQUEST frame in a TX ring and adds each valid packet length to the signed int len_sum. Userspace can recycle completed frames concurrently, so a single blocking send call is not bounded by the ring size. After enough successful transmissions len_sum wraps into the negative range. In particular, 65536 65535-byte frames followed by a 65007-byte frame produce 0xfffffdef, or -EIOCBQUEUED. sock_sendmsg_nosec() treats that as an impossible return and triggers a BUG. On systems configured to panic on oops, a CAP_NET_RAW holder can panic the host kernel. Stop before the next frame would make the byte count exceed INT_MAX. The positive short count leaves that frame pending for a later send call. A two-thread TPACKET_V2 reproducer triggered the BUG on an arm64 build of Linux 7.3-rc4. With this change, the same reproducer returned the expected positive short count without an oops.
- git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cf81fc9505b148b1b70068303ea6ea4b1212403
- git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69ca64bbb528898916f309552053c32a04a36ebc
- git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fd63d284e251332f4874ef9023cde472f315f86
- git.kernel.orghttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be12b221c0301111eeb023be04add3c6ad7c21fe
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