CVE-2026-72408EPSS p44.4%
CVE-2026-72408CVE-2026-72408
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
geneve: gate GRO hint in geneve_gro_complete() on gs->gro_hint
geneve_gro_receive() reads the GRO hint through geneve_sk_gro_hint_off(),
which honours it only when the socket enabled IFLA_GENEVE_GRO_HINT
(gs->gro_hint). geneve_gro_complete() instead calls the low-level
geneve_opt_gro_hint_off() and acts on the hint unconditionally.
On a tunnel without the hint, receive aggregates the frames as plain
ETH_P_TEB while complete still honours an attacker-supplied hint option: it
inflates gh_len by gro_hint->nested_hdr_len (u8) and redirects the dispatch
type, so the inner gro_complete handler runs at nhoff + gh_len, an offset
receive never pulled nor validated, reading out of bounds of the skb head:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ipv6_gro_complete (net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:196)
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88800fe91980 by task exploit/153
ipv6_gro_complete (net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:196)
geneve_gro_complete (drive
Scoring
| CVSS | 10.0 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.55% probability of exploitation · percentile 44.4% · 2026-10-06T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-08-17 |