CVE-2026-43500: rxrpc: Also unshare DATA/RESPONSE packets when paged frags are present
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 7c504ffab3efce8f7e4f463b314ae31030bdf18b (from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5) · < 3711382a77342a9a1c3d2e7330dcfc7ea927f568 (from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5) · < 3eae0f4f9f7206a4801efa5e0235c25bbd5a412c (from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5) · < d45179f8795222ce858770dc619abe51f9d24411 (from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5) · < aa54b1d27fe0c2b78e664a34fd0fdf7cd1960d71 (from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5)
- Linux / Linux5.3Fixed in 0, 6.6.140, 6.12.88, 6.18.29, 7.0.6, 7.1-rc3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H