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VulnerabilityReceived

CVE-2026-72326

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cake: reject overhead values that underflow length CAKE accepts signed overhead values and stores them in an s16, but the adjusted packet length calculation uses unsigned…

UnscoredEPSS 0.22%

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cake: reject overhead values that underflow length CAKE accepts signed overhead values and stores them in an s16, but the adjusted packet length calculation uses unsigned arithmetic. A negative effective length can therefore wrap to a large value. Such configurations make rate accounting depend on integer wraparound rather than on the packet size userspace intended to model. A static netlink lower bound is not enough because packets reaching CAKE can be smaller than any reasonable manual-overhead allowance. Fold the signed overhead adjustment into the existing datapath MPU clamp so negative adjusted lengths are clamped before link-layer framing adjustments.

CVSS
Not yet scored
EPSS
0.22% probability · 13th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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