CVE-2026-97618 PUBLISHED

io_uring/net: don't overconsume buffers when using MSG_TRUNC

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 24.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

io_uring/net: don't overconsume buffers when using MSG_TRUNC

When a recv/recvmsg is issued with MSG_TRUNC and the incoming packet is larger than the provided buffer, the net layer returns the full length of the packet rather than the number of bytes actually copied into the buffer. As a result, io_uring advances more of the provided buffer ring than was actually filled. Use the actual filled region size to consume the buffer, but still return the full size to preserve MSG_TRUNC semantics.

Take care with multishot, because that seems to already truncate the consumption based on the available payload size.

This was reported in https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/1619.

[axboe: fold in size_t unsigned fix]

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ae98dbf43d755b4e111fcd086e53939bef3e9a1a to 927d96f91c582b319d104ecf50ec935a8dc29193 (excl.)
  • affected from ae98dbf43d755b4e111fcd086e53939bef3e9a1a to 2e70ea75c7bb38a6dc212975f887310f14f7c043 (excl.)
  • affected from ae98dbf43d755b4e111fcd086e53939bef3e9a1a to 6028b543884f8735e057ec9eea4908cd61cab230 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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