CVE-2026-98853 PUBLISHED

net: gso: limit recursive IP-in-IP segmentation

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: gso: limit recursive IP-in-IP segmentation

IP-in-IP GSO can re-enter inet_gso_segment() or ipv6_gso_segment() for each nested IP header. encap_level tracks header bytes, not callback depth, so a deep chain can exhaust the kernel stack. Making inet_gso_segment() stackable introduced unbounded IPv4 nesting; IPIP GSO/TSO later made the path reachable. The IPv6 stackable path was introduced separately and uses the same guard.

Count IPv4 and IPv6 GSO handler entries in skb_gso_cb, initialized once per top-level GSO operation and preserved across GRE/UDP context changes. Use the existing IP_TUNNEL_RECURSION_LIMIT for both handlers. The first five entries pass, and the sixth returns -EINVAL before dispatching another GSO callback.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3347c960295583eee3fd58e5c539fb1972fbc005 to c949646c900e879afce47df1b607fa320eb63bf2 (excl.)
  • affected from 3347c960295583eee3fd58e5c539fb1972fbc005 to 006c8b834aed8b02bd8fb9fb05e9e7ead37d1763 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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