In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix u16 MTU truncation in media and bearer MTU validation Both TIPC_NL_MEDIA_SET and TIPC_NL_BEARER_SET accept user-supplied MTU values but only enforce a minimum bound, not a maximum. When a user sets the MTU to a value exceeding U16_MAX (65535), it passes validation but is silently truncated when assigned to u16 fields l->mtu and l->advertised_mtu in tipc_link_create(). Values like 65536 (0x10000) truncate to 0, causing a division by zero in tipc_link_set_queue_limits() which computes TIPC_MAX_PUBL / (l->mtu / ITEM_SIZE). Other overflowing values (e.g. 65537-131071) produce small incorrect MTU values, resulting in link malfunction behaviors. Crash stack (triggered as unprivileged user via user namespace): tipc_link_set_queue_limits net/tipc/link.c:2531 tipc_link_create net/tipc/link.c:520 tipc_node_check_dest net/tipc/node.c:1279 tipc_disc_rcv net/tipc/discover.c:252 tipc_rcv net/tipc/node.c:2129 tipc_udp_recv net/tipc/udp_media.c:392 Two independent paths lack the upper bound check: 1. tipc_udp_mtu_bad() -- called from __tipc_nl_media_set() (MEDIA_SET) 2. inline check in __tipc_nl_bearer_set() at bearer.c:1160 (BEARER_SET) Fix both by rejecting MTU values above U16_MAX.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 3
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:09
- CwesCWE-190NVD modified 2026-10-19 22:17
- First seenCVSS 7.8NVD modified 2026-10-16 16:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8fb5a20508bfb0db854e01214888c761b3a911
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bfdfe0dbb36a650b7c4dec1aeae078319938a0b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f29cd8a8e7901a2617c8064ce9f50fc67b97cb8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1cda72f6acec02ebd45d913bf8527ff77336ba6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc4b577a083b361d25e118dc96d8281255ebe22c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfdfd987f1917c84766e097a6120a1f3f1634940
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f02334a9e378f7e07232b26dc3d2ab353339f040
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4013598b69457dbea350df52e52daea6faef8eb