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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72351

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:08 AM

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Added Description

                  
                
              
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.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/158b9995d3c87f3b93f5c22df54a12e12a3438b3
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a99224c120823987e4d829726f4ecb33e03fc1e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4de9988e9ddc760b750d6b6e701c35ff60ad14
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a4a1d41c6e901e773bcf795f562a47fa71f692a
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61e78679c7c9ca685bff58e4b6348304dc60aafd
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c6876ec1b227261b51803f784c7be1b2242a1a0
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d335dcc6f521571d57117b8deeebc940836e5450
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f618cbe9b24cd0202004d2db781d5f80ab77037f
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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