# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68287"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:20.110Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:59.639Z"
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-2026-68287"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68287.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68287"
title: "drop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes\n\nnet_dm_packet_report_fill() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_fill() use\nnla_put_u64_64bit() to append 64-bit attributes (NET_DM_ATTR_PC and\nNET_DM_ATTR_TIMESTAMP).\n\nOn 32-bit architectures without CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS,\nnla_put_u64_64bit() may append a 4-byte NET_DM_ATTR_PAD attribute for\n64-bit alignment.\n\nHowever, net_dm_packet_report_size() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_size()\nused nla_total_size(sizeof(u64)) instead of nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)),\nbudgeting 12 bytes instead of up to 16 bytes.\n\nThis under-estimation of SKB size can lead to an skb_over_panic() when\n__nla_reserve() or skb_put() is subsequently called.\n\nFix this by using nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)) in both size calculations."
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