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CVE-2026-72351 (GCVE-0-2026-72351)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:55 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:43
VLAI
Title
gue: validate REMCSUM private option length
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < 158b9995d3c87f3b93f5c22df54a12e12a3438b3 (git)
Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < 7c6876ec1b227261b51803f784c7be1b2242a1a0 (git)
Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < 2c4de9988e9ddc760b750d6b6e701c35ff60ad14 (git)
Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < 2a99224c120823987e4d829726f4ecb33e03fc1e (git)
Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < 61e78679c7c9ca685bff58e4b6348304dc60aafd (git)
Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < 4a4a1d41c6e901e773bcf795f562a47fa71f692a (git)
Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < f618cbe9b24cd0202004d2db781d5f80ab77037f (git)
Affected: c1aa8347e73e4092411fbd96cc59531fb7e76d04 , < d335dcc6f521571d57117b8deeebc940836e5450 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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