CVE-2026-53091 Affecting kernel-rt-debug-modules package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.162.1.rt7.503.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX8-KERNELRTDEBUGMODULES-19675854
  • published11 Sept 2026
  • disclosed10 Sept 2026

Introduced: 10 Sep 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:8 kernel-rt-debug-modules to version 0:4.18.0-553.162.1.rt7.503.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2026:66324.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-modules package and not the kernel-rt-debug-modules package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: pull headers in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()

Most ndo_start_xmit() methods expects headers of gso packets to be already in skb->head.

net/core/tso.c users are particularly at risk, because tso_build_hdr() does a memcpy(hdr, skb->data, hdr_len);

qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init() already does a dissection of gso packets.

Use pskb_may_pull() instead of skb_header_pointer() to make sure drivers do not have to reimplement this.

Some malicious packets could be fed, detect them so that we can drop them sooner with a new SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_BAD_GSO drop_reason.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1