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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68297" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:30.721Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:03.754Z" 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-2026-68297" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68297.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68297" title: "tipc: fix u16 MTU truncation in media and bearer MTU validation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: fix u16 MTU truncation in media and bearer MTU validation\n\nBoth TIPC_NL_MEDIA_SET and TIPC_NL_BEARER_SET accept user-supplied\nMTU values but only enforce a minimum bound, not a maximum. When a user\nsets the MTU to a value exceeding U16_MAX (65535), it passes validation\nbut is silently truncated when assigned to u16 fields l-\u003emtu and\nl-\u003eadvertised_mtu in tipc_link_create(). Values like 65536 (0x10000)\ntruncate to 0, causing a division by zero in tipc_link_set_queue_limits()\nwhich computes TIPC_MAX_PUBL / (l-\u003emtu / ITEM_SIZE). Other overflowing\nvalues (e.g. 65537-131071) produce small incorrect MTU values, resulting\nin link malfunction behaviors.\n\nCrash stack (triggered as unprivileged user via user namespace):\n\n tipc_link_set_queue_limits net/tipc/link.c:2531\n tipc_link_create net/tipc/link.c:520\n tipc_node_check_dest net/tipc/node.c:1279\n tipc_disc_rcv net/tipc/discover.c:252\n tipc_rcv net/tipc/node.c:2129\n tipc_udp_recv net/tipc/udp_media.c:392\n\nTwo independent paths lack the upper bound check:\n1. tipc_udp_mtu_bad() -- called from __tipc_nl_media_set() (MEDIA_SET)\n2. inline check in __tipc_nl_bearer_set() at bearer.c:1160 (BEARER_SET)\n\nFix both by rejecting MTU values above U16_MAX." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8bfdfe0dbb36a650b7c4dec1aeae078319938a0b"},{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc4b577a083b361d25e118dc96d8281255ebe22c"},{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dfdfd987f1917c84766e097a6120a1f3f1634940"},{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f02334a9e378f7e07232b26dc3d2ab353339f040"},{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4013598b69457dbea350df52e52daea6faef8eb"},{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b8fb5a20508bfb0db854e01214888c761b3a911"},{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1cda72f6acec02ebd45d913bf8527ff77336ba6"},{"version":"901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f29cd8a8e7901a2617c8064ce9f50fc67b97cb8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","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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