CVE-2026-98393

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98393
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98393.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98393
Downstream
Published
2026-10-14T13:25:56Z
Modified
2026-10-15T02:47:42Z
Summary
net: ipv4: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU
Details

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

net: ipv4: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU

This commit bounds cork->base.fragsize to IP_MAX_MTU to avoid a possible overflow of UDP length that triggers a WARN in udp_set_len_short when setsockopt IP_MTU_DISCOVER is set to IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, and a large packet is sent over a netdev with an unusually large MTU.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Set device MTU bigger than IP_MAX_MTU + 20. cork->base.fragsize will be set to that MTU in ip_setup_cork.
  2. Set IP_MTU_DISCOVER to IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE. It lets maxnonfragsize be set to device MTU (cork->fragsize) in __ip_append_data, rather than to IP_MAX_MTU.
  3. Send 65528 bytes of payload (+8 bytes of UDP header, +20 bytes of IPv4 header). Device MTU allows it (it's only one byte bigger than IP_MAX_MTU + IPv4 header, and the device MTU is bigger than that).
  4. The UDP length in the built packet is 65536, which overflows the 16-bit length field and triggers the WARN in udp_set_len_short.

Note: IP_PMTUDISC_DO with IPv4 is safe, because ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward always clamps at IP_MAX_MTU, unlike ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward.

The Fixes tag points at the first commit where I could reproduce the overflow with IPv4 and IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98393.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
daba287b299ec7a2c61ae3a714920e90e8396ad5
Fixed
83fedc4741210f75be8ca5b487985a242bf6f18d
Fixed
81f540827d243b8dad76c1f44e70ea31719f393c
Fixed
b83641e0ab8b20eefcc4cdc5a059f897375291a2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98393.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.13.0
Fixed
6.18.53
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98393.json"