# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68299"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:33.213Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:04.053Z"
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-2026-68299"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68299.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68299"
title: "vmxnet3: fix BUG_ON in vmxnet3_get_hdr_len() for Geneve packets"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvmxnet3: fix BUG_ON in vmxnet3_get_hdr_len() for Geneve packets\n\nvmxnet3_get_hdr_len() assumes gdesc-\u003ercd.v4/v6/tcp always describe the\nouter header, but for a Geneve-encapsulated packet the device can set\nthem based on the inner header instead, signalled by the\nVMXNET3_RCD_HDR_INNER_SHIFT bit in the completion descriptor. Since the\nfunction never skips the outer encapsulation, this mismatch triggers:\n\n- BUG_ON(hdr.ipv4-\u003eprotocol != IPPROTO_TCP), because the outer\n  protocol is UDP (Geneve), not TCP.\n- BUG_ON(hdr.eth-\u003eh_proto != ...), when the tunnel's outer and inner\n  IP versions differ (e.g. outer IPv6/inner IPv4 or vice versa).\n\nCheck VMXNET3_RCD_HDR_INNER_SHIFT up front and bail out, since the\nfunction cannot locate the inner header it would need to parse. Also\nconvert the remaining BUG_ON()s in this function to return 0\ndefensively."
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