# 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-2026-53091"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:30.290Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:41:56.505Z"
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-2026-53091"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53091.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53091"
title: "net: pull headers in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: pull headers in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()\n\nMost ndo_start_xmit() methods expects headers of gso packets\nto be already in skb-\u003ehead.\n\nnet/core/tso.c users are particularly at risk, because tso_build_hdr()\ndoes a memcpy(hdr, skb-\u003edata, hdr_len);\n\nqdisc_pkt_len_segs_init() already does a dissection of gso packets.\n\nUse pskb_may_pull() instead of skb_header_pointer() to make\nsure drivers do not have to reimplement this.\n\nSome malicious packets could be fed, detect them so that we can\ndrop them sooner with a new SKB_DROP_REASON_SKB_BAD_GSO drop_reason."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e876f208af18b074f800656e4d1b99da75b2135f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5895cfc76924a629c6eaa5e5f049de642860045f"},{"version":"e876f208af18b074f800656e4d1b99da75b2135f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7564dc804d8289d2e5c6edb8173754051b71bff4"},{"version":"e876f208af18b074f800656e4d1b99da75b2135f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d4f5c68f5ad4ab425f3ce1500c97c9f9743999a"},{"version":"e876f208af18b074f800656e4d1b99da75b2135f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fb4c19670110f052c04e1ec1d2b953b9f4f57e4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.16"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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