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CVE-2026-43057

CVE-2026-43057 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.07% · 21.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.07%
21.5th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
linuxlinux_kernel6.1.149, 6.6.103, 6.12.44
LinuxLinuxa0478d7e888028f85fa7785ea838ce0ca09398e2, 2156d9e9f2e483c8c3906c0ea57ea312c1424235, 041e2f945f82fdbd6fff577b79c33469430297aa

Timeline

  • May 1, 2026 CVE Published
  • May 18, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 19, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 20, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 21, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 22, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 23, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 23, 2026 CVE Updated
  • May 24, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 25, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 26, 2026 EPSS Score
  • May 27, 2026 EPSS Score
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