CVE-2026-68476 (GCVE-0-2026-68476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-09-02 12:49
VLAI
Title
ipvs: reload ip header after head reallocation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: reload ip header after head reallocation __ip_vs_get_out_rt() calls skb_ensure_writable() which may reallocate skb->head.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6992 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < 4f2d1151421520d7ae16ca8d367d0ca09f5dfbd7 (git)
Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < 657118cad620172dfd8f6ed5717fd75c0d1f7a5a (git)
Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < a10f5080afbed242640f2984328de25f84557da1 (git)
Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < ac6ac3d35bfc0ade9d17d354c84e503a946ebdab (git)
Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < e51687fc56c2e39ea6e9532925f1aabd4d529f61 (git)
Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < 3fb7edd2018bb1ad0a68157383d9b9dac33dd645 (git)
Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < ad1e14710b360bda087ebf9fb82460eb5ef775de (git)
Affected: 8d8e20e2d7bba8c50e64e0eca1cb83956f468e49 , < a2f57827bf7c695b8c72dc4511cae8e86582369d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.269 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.220 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.187 , ≤ 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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