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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2026-23254

VendorlinuxProductlinux kernelDiscoveredMar 18, 2026UpdatedJun 1, 2026

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…

CVSS v3.1
5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.12%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
6
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Oct 22, 2026
● 0.00pp
0.11% → 0.12% over 2 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
7 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Mar 18, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Jun 1, 2026
May 19, 2026
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May 26, 2026
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Jul 2, 2026
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