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CVE-2026-98621

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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.

Fix

Microsoft's update · Critical

  • Release Notes — azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 · build 6.6.159.1-1

From the 2026-Oct release note of Microsoft's Security Update Guide, revised 2026-10-28.

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Change history 2

  1. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 09:22
  2. First seenunscoredNVD modified 2026-10-19 10:19

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

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