Improper control of a resource through its lifetime in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-52994

Vulnerability identifier: #VU135373

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2026-52994

CWE-ID: CWE-664

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass resource limit enforcement.

The vulnerability exists due to improper resource management in virtio_transport_init_zcopy_skb() when processing MSG_ZEROCOPY sends. A local user can send data using MSG_ZEROCOPY to bypass resource limit enforcement.

The issue occurs because pinned-pages accounting can use a consumed iterator count of 0 on the last skb, causing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK accounting to be skipped.

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-azure (Ubuntu package)
linux-aws (Ubuntu package)
linux-nvidia (Ubuntu package)
linux-nvidia-bos (Ubuntu package)

Install security update from vendor's repository.

Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3
linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-28.28, 7.0.0-28.28.1, 7.0.0-1003.4, 7.0.0-1008.8
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-1008.8, 7.0.0-1010.10
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1009.9
linux-azure (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-1009.9, 7.0.0-1010.10
linux-aws (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-1009.9, 7.0.0-1015.15
linux-nvidia (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7.0.0-1016.16, 7.0.0-1016.16~24.04.1
linux-nvidia-bos (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-2016.16

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cb36e252211506f51095fe7ced8286cc77b4c80
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6af1736b5810bc8a4a43a8518530113f5a757dc1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0117950075f0a9d5944980784c719d8ebcd4bff

• Improper control of a resource through its lifetime in Linux kernel vmw_vsock
• Ubuntu update for linux-oem-7.0
• Ubuntu update for linux
• Ubuntu update for linux-ibm
• Ubuntu update for linux-azure
• Ubuntu update for linux-aws
• Ubuntu update for linux-nvidia-bos
• Ubuntu update for linux-nvidia