CVE-2026-43057: net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM GSO fallback
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 2094a7cf91b71367b649f991aacc7b579f793d0b (from a0478d7e888028f85fa7785ea838ce0ca09398e2) · < ed71cf465c75f5688b07a35d373cd1d6b589c8ea (from 2156d9e9f2e483c8c3906c0ea57ea312c1424235) · < 33670f780e0120c3dacda188c512bbffe0b6044c (from 041e2f945f82fdbd6fff577b79c33469430297aa) · < a98b78116a27e2a57b696b569b2cb431c95cf9b6 (from 864e3396976ef41de6cc7bc366276bf4e084fff2) · < 732fdeb2987c94b439d51f5cb9addddc2fc48c42 (from 864e3396976ef41de6cc7bc366276bf4e084fff2) · < c4336a07eb6b2526dc2b62928b5104b41a7f81f5 (from 864e3396976ef41de6cc7bc366276bf4e084fff2)
- Linux / Linux6.17Fixed in 0, 6.1.168, 6.6.134, 6.12.81, 6.18.22, 6.19.12, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H