# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23254"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-18T17:41:00.591Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:04:21.918Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23254"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23254.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23254"
title: "net: gro: fix outer network offset"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: gro: fix outer network offset\n\nThe udp GRO complete stage assumes that all the packets inserted the RX\nhave the `encapsulation` flag zeroed. Such assumption is not true, as a\nfew H/W NICs can set such flag when H/W offloading the checksum for\nan UDP encapsulated traffic, the tun driver can inject GSO packets with\nUDP encapsulation and the problematic layout can also be created via\na veth based setup.\n\nDue to the above, in the problematic scenarios, udp4_gro_complete() uses\nthe wrong network offset (inner instead of outer) to compute the outer\nUDP header pseudo checksum, leading to csum validation errors later on\nin packet processing.\n\nAddress the issue always clearing the encapsulation flag at GRO completion\ntime. Such flag will be set again as needed for encapsulated packets by\nudp_gro_complete()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"af276a5ac8e938c8b058e3e124073cc1e322d98b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d40a85138568696387ef04cd004c64612a70874"},{"version":"5ef31ea5d053a8f493a772ebad3f3ce82c35d845","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b83557bc6f560433fe5d727e241069f8db5ba709"},{"version":"5ef31ea5d053a8f493a772ebad3f3ce82c35d845","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e5edb69e5d0e23ef248c56fc977039268c77a7b"},{"version":"5ef31ea5d053a8f493a772ebad3f3ce82c35d845","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c2c3c38be396257a6a2e55bd601a12bb9781507"},{"version":"dbd9466d323a72e22efe09151253d195d36d3bf6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.31","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.124"},{"version":"6.8.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.6.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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