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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90054" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:39.632Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:11.615Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-90054" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90054.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90054" title: "tcp: fix corruption of urgent data on multi-segment retransmit" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp: fix corruption of urgent data on multi-segment retransmit\n\nOn the normal xmit path, while in urgent mode we refuse to build a\nmulti-segment TSO packet, so every segment gets its own urg_ptr:\n\n\t/* tcp_write_xmit() */\n\tlimit = mss_now;\n\tif (tso_segs \u003e 1 && !tcp_urg_mode(tp))\n\t\tlimit = tcp_mss_split_point(...);\n\nThe retransmit path has no such guard. __tcp_retransmit_skb() builds a\nsegs \u003e 1 skb and hands it to the GSO layer, which only advances th-\u003eseq\nper segment and copies urg_ptr verbatim:\n\n\t/* __tcp_retransmit_skb() */\n\tlen = cur_mss * segs;\t\t/* segs \u003e 1, no urg_mode check */\n\t...\n\t/* tcp_gso_segment(): bumps seq only, urg_ptr is copied */\n\nurg_ptr is an offset from the segment's own seq, so a copied value points\nat a different place on each segment. The receiver rebuilds the absolute\nurgent seq as seg.seq + urg_ptr, so it walks a moving urgent point instead\nof the one OOB byte:\n\n\tseg1 seq 1 urg_ptr 5001 -\u003e urgent @ 5001 (ok)\n\tseg2 seq 1001 urg_ptr 5001 -\u003e urgent @ 6001 (wrong, +MSS)\n\tseg3 seq 2001 urg_ptr 5001 -\u003e urgent @ 7001 (wrong, +2*MSS)\n\nThe real OOB byte is never pointed at, so the receiver stops splicing it\nout and delivers it as normal in-band data, corrupting the stream.\n\nGuard the retransmit length like the xmit path: keep segs = 1 while in\nurgent mode." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8eb51013b6308870479a64b4a2a018697b997849"},{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"711bfd762bec05fb19bc3b17cbb157c39f4e66da"},{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d4e005c198dc410ad568f832bffa7569c059ff8"},{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fd2ee4ac154c204d95d8db72221446dac5af9b8"},{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebe55406404f3cb28e36d2b668e2c6c05026ec29"},{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8f08a94b2a4addc39249dcf9c792e786108621b"},{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47eb90299e6882d6445672530dd7c51ac33ebdbd"},{"version":"10d3be569243def8d92ac3722395ef5a59c504e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce2b807f42ed5e55567b8864ab72963f90779270"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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