CVE-2026-43500

rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 11, 2026
Updated
Sep 1, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

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

rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present

The DATA-packet handler in rxrpc_input_call_event() and the RESPONSE handler in rxrpc_verify_response() copy the skb to a linear one before calling into the security ops only when skb_cloned() is true. An skb that is not cloned but still carries externally-owned paged fragments (e.g. SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set by splice() into a UDP socket via __ip_append_data, or a chained skb_has_frag_list()) falls through to the in-place decryption path, which binds the frag pages directly into the AEAD/skcipher SGL via skb_to_sgvec().

Extend the gate to also unshare when skb_has_frag_list() or skb_has_shared_frag() is true. This catches the splice-loopback vector and other externally-shared frag sources while preserving the zero-copy fast path for skbs whose frags are kernel-private (e.g. NIC page_pool RX, GRO). The OOM/trace handling already in place is reused.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to before 7c504ffab3efce8f7e4f463b314ae31030bdf18bAffected
  • d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to before 3711382a77342a9a1c3d2e7330dcfc7ea927f568Affected
  • d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to before 3eae0f4f9f7206a4801efa5e0235c25bbd5a412cAffected
  • d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to before d45179f8795222ce858770dc619abe51f9d24411Affected
  • d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to before aa54b1d27fe0c2b78e664a34fd0fdf7cd1960d71Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.3Affected
  • before 5.3Not affected
  • 6.6.140 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.88 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.29 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.6 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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