High [CVE-2026-53362] account for fraggap on the paged allocation path
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-53362 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26.
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Summary
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. After this adjustment, copy no longer collapses to -fraggap on the paged path, so remove the stale comment describing that old arithmetic.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
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- kernel-0:6.12.0-211.30.1.el10_2
- kernel-0:6.12.0-55.86.1.el10_0
- RHSA-2026:34911
- RHSA-2026:35840
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Mitigation checklist
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