CVE-2026-72326

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f511dd7bf6077aa7afbe72914520553fedaacbb4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1e7807df5bf2d42a40266430e9f82f37633cdcf

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1df6cff03aad8c96e55a8b2a991e505c7a3ff6f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcdf3a3664f7d2c4e37e155f30f72ef33f041804

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f97cae7ec1b6c3c32843c42be218690d310467

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aa0e64fea778a9e3df73e64da95367ff8ad2ea5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/336c1e414fc0e9844d445174e8ada2a7dd8d1c4b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/297f459865360b46a887667cbf3aac6a6f013841

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0022