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CVE-2026-53362

LinuxVulnerabilityCVSS 7.8Patched

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 ca

No public exploitation has been reported so far. A fixed version is available (see the table below).

Recommended action: Update to the fixed version listed for your distribution using the native package manager.

CVE-2026-53362 Linux Vulnerability

Severity metrics

CVSS 3.1 : 7.8 HIGH

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
ScopeUnchanged
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected & fixed versions by distribution

Versions are the native distribution strings (backport-aware): RHEL/Debian/SUSE backport fixes, so compare with the distro version comparator (dpkg / rpm / vercmp), not the upstream version.

DistributionPackageAffectedFixed versionStatus
SUSE:Linux Micro 6.2kernel-default-base-6.12.0-160000.36.1.160000.2.17fixed
openSUSE:Leap 16.0kernel-default-6.12.0-160000.36.1fixed
openSUSE:Leap 16.0kernel-default-base-6.12.0-160000.36.1.160000.2.17fixed

Sources

Published 2026-07-04 · updated 2026-07-27 · source: NVD