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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64009" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:56:24.448Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:28:08.230Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64009" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64009.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64009" title: "xfrm: Check for underflow in xfrm_state_mtu" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: Check for underflow in xfrm_state_mtu\n\nLeo Lin reported OOB write issue in esp component:\n\n xfrm_state_mtu() returns u32 but performs its arithmetic in unsigned\n modulo-2^32 space using an attacker-influenced \"header_len + authsize +\n net_adj\" subtracted from a small \"mtu\" argument. A nobody user can\n install an IPv4 ESP tunnel SA with a large authentication key\n (XFRMA_ALG_AUTH_TRUNC, e.g. hmac(sha512), 64-byte key, 64-byte trunc),\n configure a small interface MTU (68 bytes), and set XFRMA_TFCPAD to a\n large value. When a single UDP datagram is then sent through the\n tunnel, xfrm_state_mtu() underflows to a near-2^32 value, and\n esp_output() consumes it as a signed int via:\n\n padto = min(x-\u003etfcpad, xfrm_state_mtu(x, mtu_cached))\n esp.tfclen = padto - skb-\u003elen (assigned to int)\n\n esp.tfclen ends up negative (e.g. -207). It is sign-extended to size_t\n when passed to memset() inside esp_output_fill_trailer(), producing a\n ~16 EB write of zeroes at skb_tail_pointer(skb). KASAN logs it as\n \"Write of size 18446744073709551537 at addr ffff888...\".\n\nCheck for underflow and return 1. This causes the sendmsg attempt to\nfail with ENETUNREACH." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8014f70c4e6e5ab101ae3860a614e65e988372e3"},{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1021d2877b689a648b27815c854557a917122e93"},{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a41b1b31c61c52b972278ce1732a1443f5e89ed"},{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fccd685b32df5aaf6bad4381eeda216468e283f0"},{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"820e501be8aee4b365d218d83227b314309c5fda"},{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82ac903e0b519849647657b8c48d21237ada06a2"},{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3db50ceeacb52806d8fe86fb1dfe944df0b9f789"},{"version":"c5c2523893747f88a83376abad310c8ad13f7197","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"742b04d0550b0ec89dcbc99537ec88653bd1ad90"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.22","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.22"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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