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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:vsock/virtio: cap TX credit to local buffer size
The virtio transports derives its TX credit directly from peer_buf_alloc,
which is set from the remote endpoint's SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_SIZE value.
On the host side this means that the amount of data we are willing to
queue for a connection is scaled by a guest-chosen buffer size, rather
than the host's own vsock configuration. A malicious guest can advertise
a large buffer and read slowly, causing the host to allocate a
correspondingly large amount of sk_buff memory.
The same thing would happen in the guest with a malicious host, since
virtio transports share the same code base.
Introduce a small helper, virtio_transport_tx_buf_size(), that
returns min(peer_buf_alloc, buf_alloc), and use it wherever we consume
peer_buf_alloc.
This ensures the effective TX window is bounded by both the peer's
advertised buffer and our own buf_alloc (already clamped to
buffer_max_size via SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_MAX_SIZE), so a remote peer
cannot force the other to queue more data than allowed by its own
vsock settings.
On an unpatched Ubuntu 22.04 host (~64 GiB RAM), running a PoC with
32 guest vsock connections advertising 2 GiB each and reading slowly
drove Slab/SUnreclaim from ~0.5 GiB to ~57 GiB; the system only
recovered after killing the QEMU process. That said, if QEMU memory is
limited with cgroups, the maximum memory used will be limited.
With this patch applied:
Before:
MemFree: ~61.6 GiB
Slab: ~142 MiB
SUnreclaim: ~117 MiB
After 32 high-credit connections:
MemFree: ~61.5 GiB
Slab: ~178 MiB
SUnreclaim: ~152 MiB
Only ~35 MiB increase in Slab/SUnreclaim, no host OOM, and the guest
remains responsive.
Compatibility with non-virtio transports:
- VMCI uses the AF_VSOCK buffer knobs to size its queue pairs per
socket based on the local vsk->buffer_* values; the remote side
cannot enlarge those queues beyond what the local endpoint
configured.
- Hyper-V's vsock transport uses fixed-size VMBus ring buffers and
an MTU bound; there is no peer-controlled credit field comparable
to peer_buf_alloc, and the remote endpoint cannot drive in-flight
kernel memory above those ring sizes.
- The loopback path reuses virtio_transport_common.c, so it
naturally follows the same semantics as the virtio transport.
This change is limited to virtio_transport_common.c and thus affects
virtio-vsock, vhost-vsock, and loopback, bringing them in line with the
"remote window intersected with local policy" behaviour that VMCI and
Hyper-V already effectively have.
[Stefano: small adjustments after changing the previous patch]
[Stefano: tweak the commit message]
SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: New
This issue is currently rated as having not set severity.
Note from the SUSE Security Team on the kernel-default package
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| Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | kernel-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP5 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS Extended Security | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS Extended Security | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 | kernel-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | kernel-source-azure | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP3 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Wed Feb 4 20:04:41 2026CVE page last modified: Wed Feb 4 22:45:13 2026