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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90078" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:05:56.878Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:57:34.924Z" 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-2026-90078" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90078.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90078" title: "net/sched: act_skbmod: fix length calculations and avoid invalid header warnings" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_skbmod: fix length calculations and avoid invalid header warnings\n\nsyzbot reported a warning in skb_network_header_len() triggered\nby tcf_skbmod_act():\n\n !skb_transport_header_was_set(skb)\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14949 at include/linux/skbuff.h:3243 skb_network_header_len include/linux/skbuff.h:3243 [inline]\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14949 at net/sched/act_skbmod.c:55 tcf_skbmod_act+0xfe8/0x1810 net/sched/act_skbmod.c:55\n\nThere are a few issues in tcf_skbmod_act():\n\n1. Calling skb_network_header_len() assumes skb-\u003etransport_header is set,\n which is not guaranteed when tcf_skbmod_act() runs at TC ingress.\n2. Unconditionally calling skb_mac_header_len() at the beginning of\n tcf_skbmod_act() triggers a warning on L3 devices (e.g. TUN) where the\n MAC header is unset, evaluating to an underflowed garbage length.\n3. On TC ingress, skb-\u003edata points to the network header. Adding the MAC\n header length to the IP header length causes skb_ensure_writable() to\n request more bytes than the actual IP packet length, dropping valid\n short packets (e.g. 28-byte UDP/IPv4 packets).\n\nFix these by:\n- Using skb_network_offset(skb) + sizeof(struct iphdr/ipv6hdr) for\n SKBMOD_F_ECN so that the required length is correctly calculated on\n both ingress (offset == 0) and egress (offset == mac_len).\n- Setting max_edit_len to ETH_HLEN for Ethernet header modifications\n after validating ARPHRD_ETHER." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"56af5e749f20c3a540310c207dcc373f4f09156e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"985a37781ade19061400100c2ba0f43979dd4d63"},{"version":"56af5e749f20c3a540310c207dcc373f4f09156e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d896843d8d925f0adbba319020595cfb1a7bcd57"},{"version":"56af5e749f20c3a540310c207dcc373f4f09156e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0675cff3c2924eb9b80d9dd250cf56a1140af157"},{"version":"56af5e749f20c3a540310c207dcc373f4f09156e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8a2027b7e686784a69b2dfcee841d779919f313"},{"version":"56af5e749f20c3a540310c207dcc373f4f09156e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1719865b20b22c88d2a55e922eff5ca31b0841f6"},{"version":"56af5e749f20c3a540310c207dcc373f4f09156e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62126464f3a6159c0a3dd89e196ba65bfeb0afc6"},{"version":"56af5e749f20c3a540310c207dcc373f4f09156e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81d0d1e64f30d9989c829c0953cd6e6c68d9c5fb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"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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