CVE-2026-98233 PUBLISHED

net/packet: clear RX owner on VNET header error

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

net/packet: clear RX owner on VNET header error

Commit 61fad6816fc1 ("net/packet: tpacket_rcv: avoid a producer race condition") added rx_owner_map and made tpacket_rcv() claim a V1 or V2 ring slot before converting the virtio-net header. If the conversion fails, the drop path leaves the slot claimed.

With a one-frame TPACKET_V2 ring, an unsupported UDP GSO packet leaves the only slot unavailable, so the ring also drops the next valid packet.

Clear the ownership bit on this error path. TPACKET_V3 already clears its block state here.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to bb10a0084c03a94364aeec542beddc5d49b59f59 (excl.)
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to b8c0cb3069058c2d67b5c7c833b2833381ecffdc (excl.)
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to 2daa618e7ff19eefcbda281bc4c5998c4140f9cf (excl.)
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to 23cd30498891d29a69ec9b75bd92f8a0f21f1342 (excl.)
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to 49a48a5aaf85fe69d2dc3fb334b4854fadf44e39 (excl.)
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to 805edbdcb8681da5f7ee43b3c3c809f7a8c31208 (excl.)
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to 693209a237fc548791cf402441db8b68d1da7d38 (excl.)
  • affected from 61fad6816fc10fb8793a925d5c1256d1c3db0cd2 to 33ff111d7ba3beb86e28938d6382bb5beabd865a (excl.)
  • Version 2975472e042e0bbfeeabddc5023cb8c011ec5a07 is affected
  • Version 6fb0e4385928900ccb8697748555b3f54bba5193 is affected
  • Version 86137342fd4cf52882842aa8d1318b2661f08e8a is affected
  • Version b06e4d3ed4044c2facf10a511d809f9aa29d960e is affected
  • affected from 4.14.175 to 4.15 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.19.114 to 4.20 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.4.29 to 5.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.5.14 to 5.6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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