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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98541" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:09.190Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:24.620Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98541" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98541.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98541" title: "fou: reject omitted FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO on FOU_ENCAP_DIRECT" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfou: reject omitted FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO on FOU_ENCAP_DIRECT\n\nCommit 7a9bc9e3f423 (\"fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO.\") added\nNLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U8, 1) to fou_nl_policy[FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO], which\nrejects an explicitly supplied FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO == 0 attribute with\n-ERANGE.\n\nHowever, FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO is an optional netlink attribute. When a user\nsends FOU_CMD_ADD with FOU_ATTR_TYPE set to FOU_ENCAP_DIRECT and omits\nFOU_ATTR_IPPROTO entirely, nla_policy validation succeeds and\nparse_nl_config() leaves cfg-\u003eprotocol as 0 (from memset(cfg, 0,\nsizeof(*cfg))). fou_create() then creates a FOU_ENCAP_DIRECT socket with\nfou-\u003eprotocol == 0.\n\nIn fou_udp_recv(), returning -fou-\u003eprotocol to udp_queue_rcv_one_skb()\ntriggers IP protocol resubmission when fou-\u003eprotocol \u003e 0, whereas\nreturning 0 tells the UDP tunnel layer that the skb was consumed without\nfreeing it. When fou-\u003eprotocol == 0, every packet received on the socket\nreturns 0 from fou_udp_recv() and leaks the sk_buff.\n\nReject FOU_ENCAP_DIRECT when !cfg-\u003eprotocol in fou_create() so that\ncreating a direct encapsulation port without FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO fails with\n-EINVAL while leaving FOU_CMD_DEL and FOU_CMD_GET (which share\nparse_nl_config()) unaffected.\n\nTested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by sending a FOU_CMD_ADD Generic\nNetlink request with FOU_ATTR_PORT = 5555 and FOU_ATTR_TYPE =\nFOU_ENCAP_DIRECT while omitting FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO. On the unfixed kernel,\nFOU_CMD_ADD succeeds (err = 0), FOU_CMD_GET reports fou-\u003etype = 1 and\nfou-\u003eprotocol = 0, and sending 4000 UDP packets to 127.0.0.1:5555 leaks\nall 4000 sk_buffs (SUnreclaim in /proc/meminfo grows from 41456 kB to\n59008 kB, +17552 kB); with this patch applied, FOU_CMD_ADD is rejected\nwith -EINVAL (-22)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd20220f86947d66d4dba2d76f13a28dbd86ef30"},{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46b1ffb7e169c7e401dd890b29e55dbc261f8f01"},{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7f4ba56f5d310dd018972916167985010a5d66a1"},{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bcc1624cc1cdcc05b566475d6e848093ab2a8f6"},{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b43f40798bb2758489fbbcae7e841ad4443c213"},{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1229b210ef5a39c58be665e6798203751411842"},{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"520cf06b8ea0ba5bcc1b8b982ef07f02b5e56221"},{"version":"23461551c00628c3f3fe9cf837bf53cf8f212b63","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d22609f3d13fc5baacd92c222731b03c593401db"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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