CVE-2026-43057

HIGH

net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM GSO fallback

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM GSO fallback NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM only advertises support for checksum offload of packets without IPv6 extension headers. Packets with extension headers must fall back onto software checksumming. Since TSO depends on checksum offload, those must revert to GSO. The below commit introduces that fallback. It always checks network header length. For tunneled packets, the inner header length must be checked instead. Extend the check accordingly. A special case is tunneled packets without inner IP protocol. Such as RFC 6951 SCTP in UDP. Those are not standard IPv6 followed by transport header either, so also must revert to the software GSO path.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 21.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (22)
Linux/Linux < 6.17
Linux/Linux 041e2f945f82fdbd6fff577b79c33469430297aa - 33670f780e0120c3dacda188c512bbffe0b6044c
Linux/Linux 2156d9e9f2e483c8c3906c0ea57ea312c1424235 - ed71cf465c75f5688b07a35d373cd1d6b589c8ea
Linux/Linux 6.1.149 - 6.1.168
Linux/Linux 6.1.168 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.44 - 6.12.81
Linux/Linux 6.12.81 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.16.4 - 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.18.22 - 6.18.*
... and 12 more
Published May 01, 2026
Tracked Since May 01, 2026