CVE-2026-53091
net: pull headers in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.4EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
24 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: pull headers in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()
Most ndo_start_xmit() methods expects headers of gso packets
to be already in skb->head.
net/core/tso.c users are particularly at risk, because tso_build_hdr()
does a memcpy(hdr, skb->data, hdr_len);
qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init() already does a dissection of gso packets.
Use pskb_may_pull() instead of skb_header_pointer() to make
sure drivers do not have to reimplement this.
Some malicious packets could be fed, detect them so that we can
drop them sooner with a new SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_BAD_GSO drop_reason.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-53091https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492270https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fb4c19670110f052c04e1ec1d2b953b9f4f57e4https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d4f5c68f5ad4ab425f3ce1500c97c9f9743999ahttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-53091.json