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CVE-2026-98621

net: gue: reject invalid REMCSUM offsets

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: gue: reject invalid REMCSUM offsets The REMCSUM option carries an absolute checksum start and checksum field offset. gue_remcsum() passes them to skb_remcsum_process(), whose partial path stores offset - start in the u16 skb->csum_offset variable. If offset is less than start, this underflows. A forwarded packet can retain CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and reach a NETIF_F_HW_CSUM driver which trusts the metadata, leading skb_copy_and_csum_dev() to write two bytes about 64 KiB beyond the destination buffer. Reject reversed tuples in validate_gue_flags(), after the existing length validation, so all GUE parsers enforce the ordering in one place.

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

  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < 4b9bc21b2396c396d88dd909caaf73d5be6ff593affected
  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < 43efb1f997e976f386aa89716f55870cd2cff9adaffected
  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < 1eeec0c51fd5598da44080ed96bbd9880021c28baffected
  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < 1d664be4ca49d1696e85239236f4988dfc4653c3affected
  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < 97f907203321eee2cc9132d5c9eb47698fb41d35affected
  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < 40aeafbcbc7bc4018e8f74bbbb4d29ed8846f57faffected
  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < c20f755338ca234e523dfc943719f194dfc1f903affected
  • fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to < 2566866fc30965d915d0b52b5c3323b362619f0eaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.0affected
  • 0 to < 4.0unaffected
  • 5.10.271 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.222 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.189 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.158 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.112 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.55 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.9 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

References