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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68136" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:58:59.450Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:52.839Z" 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-2026-68136" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68136.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68136" title: "net: gro: fix double aggregation of flush-marked skbs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: gro: fix double aggregation of flush-marked skbs\n\nCommit 0ab03f353d36 (\"net-gro: Fix GRO flush when receiving a GSO\npacket.\") added a flush check to skb_gro_receive(), but\nskb_gro_receive_list() lacks the same validation.\n\nAs a result, packets marked with NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)-\u003eflush may still be\nre-aggregated.\n\nThis allows already-GRO'd packets with existing frag_list to be\nre-aggregated into a new GRO session, corrupting the frag_list chain\nstructure. When skb_segment() attempts to unpack these malformed packets,\nit encounters invalid state and triggers a kernel panic.\n\nScenario (Tethering/Device forwarding):\n 1. Driver: Generated aggregated packet P1 via LRO with frag_list\n 2. Dev A: Receives aggregated fraglist packet and flush flag set\n 3. Dev A: Re-enters GRO, skb_gro_receive_list() is called\n 4. Missing flush check allows re-aggregation despite flush flag\n 5. Frag_list chain becomes corrupted (loops or dangling refs)\n 6. Dev B: TX path calls skb_segment(), crashes on corrupted frag_list\n\nRoot cause in skb_segment():\n The check at line ~4891:\n if (hsize \u003c= 0 && i \u003e= nfrags && skb_headlen(list_skb) &&\n (skb_headlen(list_skb) == len || sg)) {\n\n When frag_list is corrupted by double aggregation, when list_skb is\n a NULL pointer from skb-\u003enext, skb_headlen(list_skb) dereference\n NULL/corrupted pointers occurs.\n\nCall Trace:\n skb_headlen(NULL skb)\n skb_segment\n tcp_gso_segment\n tcp4_gso_segment\n inet_gso_segment\n skb_mac_gso_segment\n __skb_gso_segment\n skb_gso_segment\n validate_xmit_skb\n validate_xmit_skb_list\n sch_direct_xmit\n qdisc_restart\n __qdisc_run\n qdisc_run\n net_tx_action\n\nFix: Add NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)-\u003eflush validation to the early-return check in\nskb_gro_receive_list(), matching the defensive programming pattern of\nskb_gro_receive()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fc7e35212cf58c134310fb47566a844297ceae9"},{"version":"3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1fb23f8f794ac4683127bd49a6422bd87e0ac02"},{"version":"3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db3e82da616f52e2b27e25e7be3fde2f2a5e54d6"},{"version":"3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"107e1a469f53a2a70874f3f12bf6fcd23925da1d"},{"version":"3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4dfd46cc8f08a29c6183794790547d0945f3d45"},{"version":"3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc0c0f7a207f0cd2d2aa725696c907f7d03af9e0"},{"version":"3a1296a38d0cf62bffb9a03c585cbd5dbf15d596","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e751256486d0ded20f5a9f9863467f1dce65142f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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