CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72326

Low risk· EPSS 13%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.22%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's net/sched cake module, there is an issue with handling negative overhead values that can cause packet length to wrap to a large value, disrupting rate accounting.

Risk Assessment

Incorrect network traffic accounting can lead to bandwidth management errors and potential DoS attacks.

Recommendation

Apply a Linux kernel update containing the fix that clamps negative lengths before further processing.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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