ipv6: account for fraggap on the paged allocation path
Prioritize patching. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has a public proof of concept.
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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.
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.