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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43254"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:43.871Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:26:54.790Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43254"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43254.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43254"
title: "ovpn: tcp - fix packet extraction from stream"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\novpn: tcp - fix packet extraction from stream\n\nWhen processing TCP stream data in ovpn_tcp_recv, we receive large\ncloned skbs from __strp_rcv that may contain multiple coalesced packets.\nThe current implementation has two bugs:\n\n1. Header offset overflow: Using pskb_pull with large offsets on\n   coalesced skbs causes skb-\u003edata - skb-\u003ehead to exceed the u16 storage\n   of skb-\u003enetwork_header. This causes skb_reset_network_header to fail\n   on the inner decapsulated packet, resulting in packet drops.\n\n2. Unaligned protocol headers: Extracting packets from arbitrary\n   positions within the coalesced TCP stream provides no alignment\n   guarantees for the packet data causing performance penalties on\n   architectures without efficient unaligned access. Additionally,\n   openvpn's 2-byte length prefix on TCP packets causes the subsequent\n   4-byte opcode and packet ID fields to be inherently misaligned.\n\nFix both issues by allocating a new skb for each openvpn packet and\nusing skb_copy_bits to extract only the packet content into the new\nbuffer, skipping the 2-byte length prefix. Also, check the length before\ninvoking the function that performs the allocation to avoid creating an\ninvalid skb.\n\nIf the packet has to be forwarded to userspace the 2-byte prefix can be\npushed to the head safely, without misalignment.\n\nAs a side effect, this approach also avoids the expensive linearization\nthat pskb_pull triggers on cloned skbs with page fragments. In testing,\nthis resulted in TCP throughput improvements of up to 74%."
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