Bug 2516352 (CVE-2026-72351) - CVE-2026-72351 kernel: gue: validate REMCSUM private option length
Summary: CVE-2026-72351 kernel: gue: validate REMCSUM private option length
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72351
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 14:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:08:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gue: validate REMCSUM private option length

GUE private flags can indicate that remote checksum offload metadata is
present. The private flags field itself is accounted for by
guehdr_flags_len(), but guehdr_priv_flags_len() currently returns 0 even
when GUE_PFLAG_REMCSUM is set.

This lets a packet with only the private flags field pass
validate_gue_flags(), after which gue_remcsum() and gue_gro_remcsum()
read the missing REMCSUM start/offset fields from the following bytes.

Account for GUE_PLEN_REMCSUM when GUE_PFLAG_REMCSUM is present so that
malformed packets are rejected during option validation.


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