Tracker / CVE-2026-53181
CVE-2026-53181
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/vmci: fix sk_ack_backlog leak on failed handshake When vmci_transport_recv_connecting_server() returns an error, vmci_transport_recv_listen() calls vsock_remove_pending() but never calls sk_acceptq_removed(). This leaves sk_ack_backlog incremented permanently. Repeated handshake failures (malformed packets, queue pair alloc failure, event subscribe failure) cause sk_ack_backlog to climb toward sk_max_ack_backlog. Once it reaches the limit the listener permanently refuses all new connections with -ECONNREFUSED, a silent denial of service requiring a process restart to recover. The two existing sk_acceptq_removed() calls in af_vsock.c do not cover this path: line 764 checks vsock_is_pending() which returns false after vsock_remove_pending(), and line 1889 is only reached on successful accept(). Fix by balancing sk_acceptq_added() with sk_acceptq_removed() on the error path.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.9 → 5.10.259 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.210 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.176 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.36 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.13 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.143 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.94 |