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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80793"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:13:05.814Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:43:46.499Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80793"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80793.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80793"
title: "ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()\n\nip_do_fragment() subtracts the IPv4 header length from the effective\nMTU and passes the resulting payload MTU to ip_frag_next().\n\nIf the effective MTU is smaller than hlen + 8, ip_frag_next() rounds\nthe fragment payload length down to zero. The fragmentation state then\nnever makes forward progress: state-\u003eleft, state-\u003eptr and state-\u003eoffset\nstay unchanged while ip_do_fragment() keeps allocating and transmitting\nheader-only fragments until the softlockup detector fires.\n\nThis is reproducible with a route installed using \"mtu lock 20\", but it\nis also reproducible without route MTU lock, for example by forwarding a\npacket to a device whose MTU is 20.\n\nFix it in ip_do_fragment() by rejecting mtu \u003c hlen + 8 with -EMSGSIZE,\nmatching the existing IPv6 fragmentation check."
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