CVE-2026-97954 json
net/rds: fix tcp stream corruption with large pages
published last mo. modified 24d ago also EUVD-2026-86808
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/rds: fix tcp stream corruption with large pages
rds_message_map_pages() assigns PAGE_SIZE bytes to every scatterlist entry, even when total_len ends in a partial page. The RDS congestion map is defined as 8192 bytes, so on systems with PAGE_SIZE greater than 8192 the scatterlist maps bytes beyond the end of the congestion map. RDS-TCP transmits the SG contents according to those lengths, so the extra bytes become part of the TCP RDS stream and are interpreted as subsequent RDS message headers, corrupting the stream.
Limit the final scatterlist mapping to the number of bytes remaining. This has no effect on systems with a 4K page size and allows RDS-TCP to be used on systems with 16K and larger page sizes.
The RDS selftest, which previously hung on 16K pages, now passes.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.10.271, 5.15.222, 6.1.189, 6.6.158, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7, 7.3
- linux Debian 12 6.1.190-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.111-1
- linux Debian 14 7.2.7-1
- linux-6.12 Debian 12 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97954
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-202.212
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-149.149
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1119.126
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1069.74
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.17
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1120.130
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1073.81
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-97954
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.42
- kernel-syms SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 4.12.14-122.339.1
- kernel-source SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 4.12.14-122.339.1
- kernel-default SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS, SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 4.12.14-122.339.1
- kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_90 SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 1-8.3.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:5121-1SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1
- kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.2.9-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12074-1
- kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.158.1-1
azure linux advisories AZL-104421
Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d7705ce73eac1de1146706d887bc969a48ebb6d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3230961a72b312d0e47101d1428084d0a02bff52 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee74a4b42e3a2f9635ba376be9e58311322eebe4 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/348492de88bc6ea06b6f3dd544a7a00d908a807b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef3565a418b8309589fe9b5df098a892c9146b06 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cbfeb54bf781d9693778aaba133bb58c0285332 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4649a716be20ef9272f97a166dea1825ba5b554 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ac09b5353fe6858411fdc8c6efa60d832e20f13 commit
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What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-97954 updated cvss 7.0
kernel: net/rds: fix tcp stream corruption with large pages
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 moreaffected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9not affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7d7705ce73eac1de1146706d887bc969a48ebb6d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/3230961a72b312d0e47101d1428084d0a02bff52
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ee74a4b42e3a2f9635ba376be9e58311322eebe4
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/348492de88bc6ea06b6f3dd544a7a00d908a807b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ef3565a418b8309589fe9b5df098a892c9146b06
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8cbfeb54bf781d9693778aaba133bb58c0285332
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f4649a716be20ef9272f97a166dea1825ba5b554
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2ac09b5353fe6858411fdc8c6efa60d832e20f13
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-97954
- NVD CVE-2026-97954
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