# 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-2026-80847"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:54:57.441Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:07.141Z"
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-2026-80847"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80847.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80847"
title: "tcp: clamp route advmss to TCP_MIN_MSS"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: clamp route advmss to TCP_MIN_MSS\n\ntcp_select_initial_window() assumes that callers never pass an MSS\nsmaller than 1, but route-derived advmss values can violate that\nassumption.\n\nA too-small explicit RTAX_ADVMSS is one way to get there, but it is not\nthe only one. The same divide-by-zero can also be reached through the\n\"default advmss\" path when RTAX_ADVMSS is left at 0 and the effective\nadvmss is later driven down by route MTU and min_adv_mss.\n\nIntroduce a tcp_dst_advmss() helper that clamps route advmss to\nTCP_MIN_MSS before TCP consumes it, and use it in the TCP paths that\nderive advmss from dst metrics. This keeps the effective MSS from\ndropping to zero before tcp_select_initial_window() rounds the receive\nwindow."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"788fbbf7d61f9742298417c207c91b6db159fbbc"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eaf4af9bd6975c2eff8d48820937c83032d968dc"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfb44c6028e6f979720315e0772bbd0d4d33ed61"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b8c20bf61924dfc38fefb145c9f7406d73fae53"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31cf2349361902769dc323e4dbf4b449795ec288"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"870a9e42ecc6fe1b8c25d87af043cb0d9c178fe1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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