CVE-2026-98621 PUBLISHED

net: gue: reject invalid REMCSUM offsets

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to 4b9bc21b2396c396d88dd909caaf73d5be6ff593 (excl.)
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to 43efb1f997e976f386aa89716f55870cd2cff9ad (excl.)
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to 1eeec0c51fd5598da44080ed96bbd9880021c28b (excl.)
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to 1d664be4ca49d1696e85239236f4988dfc4653c3 (excl.)
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to 97f907203321eee2cc9132d5c9eb47698fb41d35 (excl.)
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to 40aeafbcbc7bc4018e8f74bbbb4d29ed8846f57f (excl.)
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to c20f755338ca234e523dfc943719f194dfc1f903 (excl.)
  • affected from fe881ef11cf0220f118816181930494d484c4883 to 2566866fc30965d915d0b52b5c3323b362619f0e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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