Bug 2513335 (CVE-2026-68287) - CVE-2026-68287 kernel: drop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes
Summary: CVE-2026-68287 kernel: drop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68287
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:31 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-12 21:40 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:31:38 UTC
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.


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