# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72502"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:57:33.647Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:27.761Z"
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-2026-72502"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72502.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72502"
title: "tcp: ipv6: clamp default adverting MSS to avoid GSO_BY_FRAGS (0xFFFF)"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: ipv6: clamp default adverting MSS to avoid GSO_BY_FRAGS (0xFFFF)\n\nWhen MTU is large, ip6_default_advmss() can return IPV6_MAXPLEN (65535).\nThis is interpreted by TCP as mss_clamp, allowing the MSS to reach 65535.\n\nHowever, 0xFFFF is also used as a magic value GSO_BY_FRAGS in the kernel.\nIf a TCP packet with gso_size=0xFFFF is passed to skb_segment(), it will\nbe mistakenly treated as GSO_BY_FRAGS, leading to a NULL pointer\ndereference because local TCP packets do not use frag_list.\n\nFix this by returning min(IPV6_MAXPLEN, GSO_BY_FRAGS - 1) (65534) from\nip6_default_advmss() when MTU is large.\n\nAlso update the stale comment in ip6_default_advmss() which suggested\nthat IPV6_MAXPLEN is returned to mean \"any MSS\"."
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