CVE-2026-68287

drop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 10, 2026 at 12:02 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes net_dm_packet_report_fill() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_fill() use nla_put_u64_64bit() to append 64-bit attributes (NET_DM_ATTR_PC and NET_DM_ATTR_TIMESTAMP). On 32-bit architectures without CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS, nla_put_u64_64bit() may append a 4-byte NET_DM_ATTR_PAD attribute for 64-bit alignment. However, net_dm_packet_report_size() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_size() used nla_total_size(sizeof(u64)) instead of nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)), budgeting 12 bytes instead of up to 16 bytes. This under-estimation of SKB size can lead to an skb_over_panic() when __nla_reserve() or skb_put() is subsequently called. Fix this by using nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)) in both size calculations.

Affected

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

5.4ca30707dee2bc8bc81cfd8b4277fe90f7ca6df1f
Vendor states this is fixed in 0da8f531336b28a59b23e5a67d40eaed15906201 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1275a4769c126405c6c63b6372daff120ac679a6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4a9e30764e80693bcf875c776170edce20f94fe0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6048ed2dfb33426c8aef32f8d225ea91c66813db (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7089f7ab99c89f443c92d8fcc585e63f2727f0b3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 925669d4cfd47a9019ab29b40676215bab5dae35 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.189 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.111 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.53 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.158 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.5HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusRECEIVED
CWE
CWE-131

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