# 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-2026-72057"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:12.873Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:25.539Z"
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-2026-72057"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72057.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72057"
title: "net/sched: act_ct: preserve tc_skb_cb across defragmentation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ct: preserve tc_skb_cb across defragmentation\n\ntcf_ct_handle_fragments() calls nf_ct_handle_fragments() without saving\nand restoring skb-\u003ecb. The defrag helper clears IPCB/IP6CB, which aliases\nthe tc_skb_cb/qdisc_skb_cb control buffer. Fragmented traffic through\nact_ct therefore loses qdisc metadata such as pkt_segs and can trigger\nWARN_ON_ONCE() in qdisc_pkt_segs() when panic_on_warn is enabled.\n\nSave and restore the full tc_skb_cb around nf_ct_handle_fragments(),\nmatching the pattern used by ovs_ct_handle_fragments()."
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