CVE-2026-80637

netfilter: synproxy: fix unaligned memory access in timestamp adjustment

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 28, 2026 at 06:48 AM UTC
Updated: October 30, 2026 at 01:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: synproxy: fix unaligned memory access in timestamp adjustment Use get_unaligned_be32() and put_unaligned_be32() to safely read and write the timestamp fields. This prevents performance degradation due to unaligned memory access or even a crash on strict alignment architectures. This follows the implementation of timestamp parsing in the networking stack at tcp_parse_options() and synproxy_parse_options().

Affected

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

3.1248b1de4c110a7afa4b85862f6c75af817db26fad
Vendor states this is fixed in 2b8e7aaa38002d8ee2f48d87b1f392eadd8e98c4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5c9c67cf7a3d16051dfb90e98836f530964dfb8e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 992c20bc8a4aba220c8b95b467d049289778dad6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ea3d2caa5bfacf5db5c1cad521ca5d9144edd9a7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.5HIGHLinux
Vector?

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