CVE-2026-23254

net: gro: fix outer network offset

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 18, 2026 at 05:41 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: gro: fix outer network offset The udp GRO complete stage assumes that all the packets inserted the RX have the `encapsulation` flag zeroed. Such assumption is not true, as a few H/W NICs can set such flag when H/W offloading the checksum for an UDP encapsulated traffic, the tun driver can inject GSO packets with UDP encapsulation and the problematic layout can also be created via a veth based setup. Due to the above, in the problematic scenarios, udp4_gro_complete() uses the wrong network offset (inner instead of outer) to compute the outer UDP header pseudo checksum, leading to csum validation errors later on in packet processing. Address the issue always clearing the encapsulation flag at GRO completion time. Such flag will be set again as needed for encapsulated packets by udp_gro_complete().

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 6.8.106.13 ≤ v < 6.18.106.6.31 ≤ v < 6.6.1246.8.10 ≤ v < 6.96.9 ≤ v < 6.12.706.9 ≤ v < 6.18.106.9 ≤ v < 6.196.9.1 ≤ v < 6.12.705ef31ea5d053a8f493a772ebad3f3ce82c35d8456.19 rc16.19 rc26.19 rc36.19 rc46.19 rc56.19 rc66.19 rc76.19 rc86.6.316.8.106.96.9 rc7af276a5ac8e938c8b058e3e124073cc1e322d98bdbd9466d323a72e22efe09151253d195d36d3bf6
Vendor states this is fixed in 2e5edb69e5d0e23ef248c56fc977039268c77a7b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5c2c3c38be396257a6a2e55bd601a12bb9781507 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9d40a85138568696387ef04cd004c64612a70874 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b83557bc6f560433fe5d727e241069f8db5ba709 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.70 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.19 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.124 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.9 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
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