{"id":"CVE-2024-26640","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-26640","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:14:01.479Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: add sanity checks to rx zerocopy TCP rx zerocopy intent is to map pages initially allocated from NIC drivers, not pages owned by a fs.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: add sanity checks to rx zerocopy\n\nTCP rx zerocopy intent is to map pages initially allocated\nfrom NIC drivers, not pages owned by a fs.\n\nThis patch adds to can_map_frag() these additional checks:\n\n- Page must not be a compound one.\n- page->mapping must be NULL.\n\nThis fixes the panic reported by ZhangPeng.\n\nsyzbot was able to loopback packets built with sendfile(),\nmapping pages owned by an ext4 file to TCP rx zerocopy.\n\nr3 = socket$inet_tcp(0x2, 0x1, 0x0)\nmmap(&(0x7f0000ff9000/0x4000)=nil, 0x4000, 0x0, 0x12, r3, 0x0)\nr4 = socket$inet_tcp(0x2, 0x1, 0x0)\nbind$inet(r4, &(0x7f0000000000)={0x2, 0x4e24, @multicast1}, 0x10)\nconnect$inet(r4, &(0x7f00000006c0)={0x2, 0x4e24, @empty}, 0x10)\nr5 = openat$dir(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f00000000c0)='./file0\\x00',\n    0x181e42, 0x0)\nfallocate(r5, 0x0, 0x0, 0x85b8)\nsendfile(r4, r5, 0x0, 0x8ba0)\ngetsockopt$inet_tcp_TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE(r4, 0x6, 0x23,\n    &(0x7f00000001c0)={&(0x7f0000ffb000/0x3000)=nil, 0x3000, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,\n    0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, &(0x7f0000000440)=0x40)\nr6 = openat$dir(0xffffffffffffff9c, &(0x7f00000000c0)='./file0\\x00',\n    0x181e42, 0x0)","published":"2024-03-18T11:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T11:16:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00242,"percentile":0.15244,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8adcc0e2c584fec778add7777fe28e20781e60","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/577e4432f3ac810049cb7e6b71f4d96ec7c6e894","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/718f446e60316bf606946f7f42367d691d21541e","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b383d4ea272fe5795877506dcce5aad1f6330e5e","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d15cc0f66884ef2bed28c7ccbb11c102aa3a0760","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f48bf9a83b1666d934247cb58a9887d7b3127b6f","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8adcc0e2c584fec778add7777fe28e20781e60","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/577e4432f3ac810049cb7e6b71f4d96ec7c6e894","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/718f446e60316bf606946f7f42367d691d21541e","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b383d4ea272fe5795877506dcce5aad1f6330e5e","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d15cc0f66884ef2bed28c7ccbb11c102aa3a0760","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f48bf9a83b1666d934247cb58a9887d7b3127b6f","tags":["Mailing List","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html","tags":["Mailing List"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26640","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}