CVE-2026-43284

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags

MSG_SPLICE_PAGES can attach pages from a pipe directly to an skb. TCP

marks such skbs with SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG after skb_splice_from_iter(),

so later paths that may modify packet data can first make a private

copy. The IPv4/IPv6 datagram append paths did not set this flag when

splicing pages into UDP skbs.

That leaves an ESP-in-UDP packet made from shared pipe pages looking

like an ordinary uncloned nonlinear skb. ESP input then takes the no-COW

fast path for uncloned skbs without a frag_list and decrypts in place

over data that is not owned privately by the skb.

Mark IPv4/IPv6 datagram splice frags with SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG, matching

TCP. Also make ESP input fall back to skb_cow_data() when the flag is

present, so ESP does not decrypt externally backed frags in place.

Private nonlinear skb frags still use the existing fast path.

This intentionally does not change E

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References