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CVE-2026-53362.

Severity, exploit probability and exploitation status for one vulnerability, drawn from NVD, FIRST EPSS and CISA's exploited catalogue.

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known exploited Linux Kernel Unspecified Vulnerability

Vendor / product
Linux - Kernel
Listed by CISA
2026-08-27
Federal fix deadline
2026-08-30 (passed)
Required action
Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.8 high CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.51% estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (higher than 42% of all CVEs)
Weakness class
CWE-787, CWE-122

ATT&CK techniques

inferred from weakness class no curated mapping exists for this CVE; these are the techniques typically seen with CWE-787, CWE-122 vulnerabilities

ReconnaissanceResource DevelopmentInitial AccessExecutionPersistencePrivilege EscalationStealthDefense ImpairmentCredential AccessDiscoveryLateral MovementCollectionCommand and ControlExfiltrationImpact

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Inferred from CWE-122, CWE-787.

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

Execution

Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.

Inferred from CWE-122, CWE-787.

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

Execution

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.

Inferred from CWE-122, CWE-787.

T1204 User Execution

Execution

An adversary may rely upon specific actions by a user in order to gain execution.

via sub-technique T1204.002 Malicious File

Inferred from CWE-122, CWE-787.

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow

ExecutionStealth

Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the way operating systems run programs.

Inferred from CWE-122, CWE-787.

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

Inferred from CWE-122, CWE-787.

See these techniques on the full ATT&CK matrix.

Description

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. The non-paged branch sets alloclen to fraglen, which already accounts for fraggap because datalen does. Bring the paged branch in line by adding fraggap to alloclen and subtracting it from pagedlen. After this adjustment, copy no longer collapses to -fraggap on the paged path, so remove the stale comment describing that old arithmetic. Since a negative copy is no longer expected for a valid MSG_SPLICE_PAGES case, remove the MSG_SPLICE_PAGES exception from the negative copy check.

Published
2026-07-04
Last modified
2026-08-28
NVD status
Analyzed

References

Covered in Decrypted

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