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Linux kernel LPEs: ZcopyReaper (CVE-2026-43502) and 20 more

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Researchers disclosed CVE-2026-43502 (ZcopyReaper), a Linux kernel local privilege escalation in the RDS zerocopy send path, fixed in v7.1-rc3.

Yuan Tan reported a Linux kernel local privilege escalation in the RDS zerocopy send path, tracked as CVE-2026-43502 and dubbed ZcopyReaper, posted to oss-security. The flaw was introduced in Linux v4.17 and fixed by commit 44b550d88b26, first appearing in mainline v7.1-rc3. The researchers demonstrated local privilege escalation on an openSUSE system running kernel 6.4.0-150600.23.100. The post also references 20 additional Linux kernel LPEs, though CVE ids were not provided in the excerpt.

  • CVE-2026-43502 is an LPE in the RDS zerocopy send path
  • Introduced in Linux v4.17; fixed by commit 44b550d88b26 in v7.1-rc3
  • LPE demonstrated on openSUSE running kernel 6.4.0-150600.23.100
  • Reported alongside 20 more Linux kernel local privilege escalations

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CVE-2026-43502
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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.

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Posted by Yuan Tan on Sep 07 Hi all, We found a Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability in the RDS zerocopy send path, tracked as CVE-2026-43502. We call the exploit ZcopyReaper. The vulnerability was introduced in Linux v4.17 and fixed by commit 44b550d88b26. The first mainline release containing the fix was Linux v7.1-rc3. We successfully demonstrated local privilege escalation on an openSUSE system running Linux kernel 6.4.0-150600.23.100. An...

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