CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-23083

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the FOU (Foo-over-UDP) module. When the FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO attribute is set to 0, the fou_udp_recv() function neither frees the skb buffer nor resubmits it, leading to a memory leak.

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of kernel memory exhaustion by an attacker sending crafted UDP packets with IPPROTO set to 0, causing a denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that forbids setting the value 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO. fou_udp_recv() has the same problem mentioned in the previous patch. If FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO is set to 0, skb is not freed by fou_udp_recv() nor "resubmit"-ted in ip_protocol_deliver_rcu(). Let's forbid 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS