CVE-2026-72407

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72407
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72407.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-72407
Downstream
Published
2026-08-15T05:56:30Z
Modified
2026-08-18T03:56:42Z
Severity
  • 10.0 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_complete()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_complete()

Even with both paths gated on gs->gro_hint, geneve_gro_complete() re-derives the inner dispatch type and length from the packet and the current gs->gro_hint, independently of geneve_gro_receive(). The two can disagree if gs->gro_hint flips under a concurrent geneve_quiesce()/ geneve_unquiesce() (sk_user_data is NULL across a synchronize_net()), or if the re-read option bytes differ from the ones receive parsed.

geneve_gro_receive() already records the inner network header position in NAPI_GRO_CB()->inner_network_offset. Have geneve_gro_complete() compute the offset it is about to dispatch at, adding ETH_HLEN in the ETH_P_TEB case where eth_gro_complete() steps over the inner MAC header, and bail out if it lands past inner_network_offset.

Use a lower bound rather than exact equality: between gh_len and the inner L3 header, geneve_gro_receive() may also have pulled an inner VLAN tag (vlan_gro_receive() advances the recorded offset past it), which only moves inner_network_offset further out. A valid frame therefore always satisfies inner_nh <= inner_network_offset, while a gh_len inflated by a hint gro_receive() did not honour dispatches past the validated inner header, i.e. the out-of-bounds completion. Only the latter is rejected.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/72xxx/CVE-2026-72407.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
fd0dd796576e1a560e1441e665810129f0a82be0
Fixed
e2087447f562692ff0cd08a0554d8d4ad083aa5c
Fixed
cbb0d30a1ad6fc9439b1dc9b4f5a7a9140d3b11f

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72407.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.0.0
Fixed
7.1.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72407.json"