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

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Linux kernel developers discuss a batch of 21 local privilege escalation CVEs, including ZcopyReaper (CVE-2026-43502) in the RDS networking driver.

An oss-security thread examines newly published Linux kernel local privilege escalation issues tracked in the kernel.org security vulnerabilities git repository. CVE-2026-43502, dubbed ZcopyReaper, affects the net/rds (Reliable Datagram Sockets) subsystem. The discussion references roughly 20 additional kernel LPE CVEs published in the 2026 Q3 window.

  • CVE-2026-43502 (ZcopyReaper) resides in the Linux kernel net/rds subsystem
  • Batch covers around 21 local privilege escalation issues
  • Fixes are tracked in the kernel.org security vulnerabilities git repository
  • Discussion held publicly on the oss-security mailing list
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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 Dominique Martinet on Sep 08 Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote on Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 06:52:03PM +0200: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/ Looking at cve/published/2026/*.mbox, for the last four you handpicked: CVE-2026-43502: net/rds:...

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