CVE-2026-43500 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 11.05.2026 Updated: 11.05.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to 3eae0f4f9f7206a4801efa5e0235c25bbd5a412c (excl.)
  • affected from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to d45179f8795222ce858770dc619abe51f9d24411 (excl.)
  • affected from d0d5c0cd1e711c98703f3544c1e6fc1372898de5 to aa54b1d27fe0c2b78e664a34fd0fdf7cd1960d71 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.29 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.6 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc3 to * (incl.)

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