CVE-2026-98621: net: gue: reject invalid REMCSUM offsets

Published Oct 18, 2026
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Updated

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. gueremcsum() passes them to skbremcsumprocess(), whose partial path stores offset - start in the u16 skb->csumoffset variable. If offset is less than start, this underflows.

A forwarded packet can retain CHECKSUMPARTIAL and reach a NETIFFHWCSUM driver which trusts the metadata, leading skbcopyandcsumdev() to write two bytes about 64 KiB beyond the destination buffer.

Reject reversed tuples in validategueflags(), after the existing length validation, so all GUE parsers enforce the ordering in one place.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Oct 18, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:19 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:19 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:17 PM
Description

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