High severity · published May 21, 2026
CVE-2026-43502
net/rds: handle zerocopy send cleanup before the message is queued
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/rds: handle zerocopy send cleanup before the message is queued
A zerocopy send can fail after user pages have been pinned but before
the message is attached to the sending socket.
The purge path currently infers zerocopy state from rm->m_rs, so an
unqueued message can be cleaned up as if it owned normal payload pages.
However, zerocopy ownership is really determined by the presence of
op_mmp_znotifier, regardless of whether the message has reached the
socket queue.
Capture op_mmp_znotifier up front in rds_message_purge() and use it as
the cleanup discriminator. If the message is already associated with a
socket, keep the existing completion path. Otherwise, drop the pinned
page accounting directly and release the notifier before putting the
payload pages.
This keeps early send failure cleanup consistent with the zerocopy
lifetime rules without changing the normal queued completion path.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
4.17 before 5.10.258; 5.11 before 5.15.209; 5.16 before 6.1.175; 6.2 before 6.6.140; 6.7 before 6.12.88; 6.13 before 6.18.30; +3 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
0cebaccef3acbdfbc2d85880a2efb765d2f4e2e3 before e9aefdc5c53fe9aed108c14e3d155710a1bb14c9; 0cebaccef3acbdfbc2d85880a2efb765d2f4e2e3 before 46662f7dc59475995609bf3e9d27eb36f4acf26f; 0cebaccef3acbdfbc2d85880a2efb765d2f4e2e3 before 1e262db7675e27f42c3f3f47d6011855f4454f24; 0cebaccef3acbdfbc2d85880a2efb765d2f4e2e3 before 21d70744e6d3bbf9293aa1ee6fba7c53ad75275e; 0cebaccef3acbdfbc2d85880a2efb765d2f4e2e3 before 3abc8983b2bae3f487f77d9da5527d7d6b210d46; 0cebaccef3acbdfbc2d85880a2efb765d2f4e2e3 before 14ef6fd18db2494098b21e0471bf27a1d8e9993e; +3 more · source: vendor
SS
SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem · Siemens
0 · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43502
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43502
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f5c185fc79a59ee9991234dd6d2a3e5afa6e75b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ef6fd18db2494098b21e0471bf27a1d8e9993e
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e262db7675e27f42c3f3f47d6011855f4454f24
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21d70744e6d3bbf9293aa1ee6fba7c53ad75275e
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3abc8983b2bae3f487f77d9da5527d7d6b210d46
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44b550d88b267320459d518c0743a241ab2108fa
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