CVE-2026-72351 (GCVE-0-2026-72351)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:55 – Updated: 2026-10-16 18:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-16 18:47 UTC
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
guessed | |
| 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) |
guessed |
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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