CVE-2026-98621

NONE
—CVSS v3
—CVSS v2
0.21% EPSS (exploit probability)
—CWE

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.

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