Skip to content
CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2026-72351

gue: validate REMCSUM private option length

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gue: validate REMCSUM private option length GUE private flags can indicate that remote checksum offload metadata is present. The private flags field itself is accounted for by guehdr_flags_len(), but guehdr_priv_flags_len() currently returns 0 even when GUE_PFLAG_REMCSUM is set. This lets a packet with only the private flags field pass validate_gue_flags(), after which gue_remcsum() and gue_gro_remcsum() read the missing REMCSUM start/offset fields from the following bytes. Account for GUE_PLEN_REMCSUM when GUE_PFLAG_REMCSUM is present so that malformed packets are rejected during option validation.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < 158b9995d3c87f3b93f5c22df54a12e12a3438b3affected
  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < 7c6876ec1b227261b51803f784c7be1b2242a1a0affected
  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < 2c4de9988e9ddc760b750d6b6e701c35ff60ad14affected
  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < 2a99224c120823987e4d829726f4ecb33e03fc1eaffected
  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < 61e78679c7c9ca685bff58e4b6348304dc60aafdaffected
  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < 4a4a1d41c6e901e773bcf795f562a47fa71f692aaffected
  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < f618cbe9b24cd0202004d2db781d5f80ab77037faffected
  • c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 to < d335dcc6f521571d57117b8deeebc940836e5450affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 3.19affected
  • 0 to < 3.19unaffected
  • 5.10.261 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.212 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.178 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.145 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.97 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

References