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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98955" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:15.287Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:15.287Z" 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-2026-98955" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98955.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98955" title: "flow_dissector: avoid u16 truncation of skb-\u003elen when computing thoff" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nflow_dissector: avoid u16 truncation of skb-\u003elen when computing thoff\n\n__skb_flow_dissect() computes key_control-\u003ethoff using:\n\n key_control-\u003ethoff = min_t(u16, nhoff, skb ? skb-\u003elen : hlen);\n\nmin_t(u16, ...) casts both arguments to u16 before comparing them.\nWhenever skb-\u003elen (or hlen) modulo 65536 is smaller than nhoff, the\ntruncated length wins and thoff is set to a bogus small value, even\nwhen the dissection succeeded. For example, an IPv4/TCP frame with\nskb-\u003elen == 65540 and nhoff == 34 gets thoff == 4, so callers such as\nskb_probe_transport_header() point the transport header inside the\nEthernet header.\n\nSuch skbs are not exotic:\n- At the time of commit d0c081b49137 (\"flow_dissector: properly cap\n thoff field\"), AF_PACKET with PACKET_VNET_HDR could already build GSO\n skbs larger than 64KB (MTU checks are skipped for GSO, and\n alloc_skb_with_frags() accepted up to MAX_SKB_FRAGS (17) order-0\n pages on top of the linear part).\n- BIG TCP now makes skbs larger than 64KB common.\n- The following patch makes tun_get_user() dissect IFF_TAP frames\n before eth_type_trans() pulls the Ethernet header, so a GSO frame\n carrying a 65522..65535 byte L3 packet will be dissected with\n skb-\u003elen in [65536, 65549].\n\nCompare as u32 instead. If the resulting offset cannot be represented\nin the u16 key_control-\u003ethoff, cap it to U16_MAX and report the\ndissection as failed rather than silently returning a wrong transport\noffset. thoff is still set on failure, as some callers (such as\neth_get_headlen()) use it regardless of the return value." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d0c081b49137cd3200f2023c0875723be66e7ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9e08836d06c84abb18470c94b12b131eaccdc7d"},{"version":"d0c081b49137cd3200f2023c0875723be66e7ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50d0cd575cab763f833d6ac6eb6550b23a0b3dae"},{"version":"d0c081b49137cd3200f2023c0875723be66e7ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9993e6a0ac1b5b3101ffba702cacb9f42b9909d8"},{"version":"d0c081b49137cd3200f2023c0875723be66e7ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52efce4755a4b8b82039caa773645ffc80b25362"},{"version":"d0c081b49137cd3200f2023c0875723be66e7ce5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99bda1ecbd56905f8bd934b9cdccd3bd251192b1"},{"version":"d35cd5e279881ec36ff8cd82a2d9caebc0cce3fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"eecfa2eeefe3caef4c8d6b2284f6066c76ab26a1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"80f327285cab6ab8e10c3ea03278add5dd99fb02","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.4.114","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.79","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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