# 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-2026-63868"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:18:37.823Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-19T14:18:37.823Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-63868"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63868.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63868"
title: "net: garp: fix unsigned integer underflow in garp_pdu_parse_attr"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: garp: fix unsigned integer underflow in garp_pdu_parse_attr\n\nThe receive-side GARP attribute parser computes dlen with reversed\noperands:\n\n        dlen = sizeof(*ga) - ga-\u003elen;\n\nga-\u003elen is the on-wire attribute length and includes the GARP attribute\nheader. For normal attributes with data, ga-\u003elen is larger than\nsizeof(*ga), so the subtraction underflows in unsigned arithmetic.\n\nThe resulting value is later passed to garp_attr_lookup(), whose length\nargument is u8. After truncation, the parsed data length usually no\nlonger matches the length stored for locally registered attributes, so\nreceived Join/Leave events are ignored. This breaks the GARP receive path\nfor common attributes, such as GVRP VLAN registration attributes.\n\nCompute the data length as the attribute length minus the header length."
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