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CVE-2026-53362highunder attackCWE-122

ipv6: account for fraggap on the paged allocation path

71Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Actcvss 7.8epss 0.5%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJul 4
1st PoCJul 3
CISA KEV+54d
exploitation probability
0.5%top 58% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesCISA + VulnCheck
1 public exploit(s)
What the vendors declare (VEX)

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Fixed
11 products (669 components)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 10.0) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time (v. 10) · and others 6
Not affected
4 products (198 components)because the vulnerable code is not present in the product
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2026-08-30

Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

In short

A memory allocation bug in the Linux kernel's IPv6 implementation allows an unprivileged user to write data past buffer boundaries when using UDP sockets with specific message flags, potentially corrupting kernel memory.

Technical detail

In __ip6_append_data(), the paged allocation path miscalculates alloclen and pagedlen when fraggap is non-zero, causing the linear buffer to be undersized while pagedlen is overstated. An unprivileged user can trigger this via UDPv6 socket with MSG_MORE and MSG_SPLICE_PAGES flags, resulting in out-of-bounds writes into skb_shared_info and potential kernel memory corruption.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: account for fraggap on the paged allocation path In __ip6_append_data(), when the paged-allocation branch is taken (MSG_MORE / NETIF_F_SG / large fraglen), alloclen and pagedlen are computed as alloclen = fragheaderlen + transhdrlen; pagedlen = datalen - transhdrlen; datalen already includes fraggap (datalen = length + fraggap). When fraggap is non-zero, this is not the first skb and transhdrlen is zero. The fraggap bytes carried over from the previous skb are copied just past the fragment headers in the new skb's linear area. The linear area is therefore undersized by fraggap bytes while pagedlen is overstated by the same amount, and the copy writes past skb->end into the trailing skb_shared_info. An unprivileged user can trigger this via a UDPv6 socket using MSG_MORE together with MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. The bad accounting was introduced by commit 773ba4fe9104 ("ipv6: avoid partial copy for zc"). Before commit ce650a166335 ("udp6: Fix __ip6_append_data()'s handling of MSG_SPLICE_PAGES"), the negative copy value caused -EINVAL to be returned. That later commit allowed MSG_SPLICE_PAGES to proceed in this case, making the corruption triggerable. The non-paged branch sets alloclen to fraglen, which already accounts for fraggap because datalen does. Bring the paged branch in line by adding fraggap to alloclen and subtracting it from pagedlen. After this adjustment, copy no longer collapses to -fraggap on the paged path, so remove the stale comment describing that old arithmetic. Since a negative copy is no longer expected for a valid MSG_SPLICE_PAGES case, remove the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES exception from the negative copy check.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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