In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix DATA decrypt vs splice() by copying data to buffer in recvmsg
This improves the fix for CVE-2026-43500.
Fix the pagecache corruption from in-place decryption of a DATA packet transmitted locally by splice() by getting rid of the packet sharing in the I/O thread and unconditionally extracting the packet content into a bounce buffer in which the buffer is decrypted. recvmsg() (or the kernel equivalent) then copies the data from the bounce buffer to the destination buffer. The sk_buff then remains unmodified.
This has an additional advantage in that the packet is then arranged in the buffer with the correct alignment required for the crypto algorithms to process directly. The performance of the crypto does seem to be a little faster and, surprisingly, the unencrypted performance doesn't seem to change much - possibly due to removing complexity from the I/O thread.
Yet another advantage is that the I/O thread doesn't have to copy packets which would slow down packet distribution, ACK generation, etc..
The buffer belongs to the call and is allocated initially at 2K, sufficiently large to hold a whole jumbo subpacket, but the buffer will be increased in size if needed. However, to take this work, MSG_PEEK may cause a later packet to be decrypted into the buffer, in which case the earlier one will need re-decrypting for a subsequent recvmsg().
Note that rx_pkt_offset may legitimately see 0 as a valid offset now, so switch to using USHRT_MAX to indicate an invalid offset.
Note also that I would generally prefer to replace the buffers of the current sk_buff with a new kmalloc'd buffer of the right size, ditching the old data and frags as this makes the handling of MSG_PEEK easier and removes the re-decryption issue, but this looks like quite a complicated thing to achieve. skb_morph() looks half way to what I want, but I don't want to have to allocate a new sk_buff.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade linux | Jul 23, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 23, 2026 | Jul 19, 2026 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1008-oracleUpgrade linux-image-raspi-realtime-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1016-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-ibm-7.0Upgrade linux-image-aws-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-raspiUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-2016-nvidia-bos-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-2016-nvidia-bosUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-bos-64kUpgrade linux-image-azureUpgrade linux-image-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-bosUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1010-ibmUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-bos-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gcp-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-raspiUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1011-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1016-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-azure-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-bos-7.0Upgrade linux-image-aws-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-raspi-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-gcp-7.0Upgrade linux-image-raspi-7.0Upgrade linux-image-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-azureUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1009-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1010-azureUpgrade linux-image-oracleUpgrade linux-image-awsUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1009-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1008-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-ibmUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1011-gcpUpgrade linux-image-raspi-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-oracle-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gcpUpgrade linux-image-azure-fde-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1009-awsUpgrade linux-image-oracle-7.0 | Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 20, 2026 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Aug 3, 2026 | Jul 19, 2026 |
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