CVE-2026-68297

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68297
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68297.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-68297
Downstream
Published
2026-08-10T12:02:30Z
Modified
2026-08-21T03:30:46Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
tipc: fix u16 MTU truncation in media and bearer MTU validation
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tipc: fix u16 MTU truncation in media and bearer MTU validation

Both TIPC_NL_MEDIA_SET and TIPC_NL_BEARER_SET accept user-supplied MTU values but only enforce a minimum bound, not a maximum. When a user sets the MTU to a value exceeding U16_MAX (65535), it passes validation but is silently truncated when assigned to u16 fields l->mtu and l->advertised_mtu in tipc_link_create(). Values like 65536 (0x10000) truncate to 0, causing a division by zero in tipc_link_set_queue_limits() which computes TIPC_MAX_PUBL / (l->mtu / ITEM_SIZE). Other overflowing values (e.g. 65537-131071) produce small incorrect MTU values, resulting in link malfunction behaviors.

Crash stack (triggered as unprivileged user via user namespace):

tipc_link_set_queue_limits net/tipc/link.c:2531 tipc_link_create net/tipc/link.c:520 tipc_node_check_dest net/tipc/node.c:1279 tipc_disc_rcv net/tipc/discover.c:252 tipc_rcv net/tipc/node.c:2129 tipc_udp_recv net/tipc/udp_media.c:392

Two independent paths lack the upper bound check:

  1. tipc_udp_mtu_bad() -- called from __tipc_nl_media_set() (MEDIA_SET)
  2. inline check in __tipc_nl_bearer_set() at bearer.c:1160 (BEARER_SET)

Fix both by rejecting MTU values above U16_MAX.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68297.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
901271e0403af638c224987c2a4e55cebade7e91
Fixed
8bfdfe0dbb36a650b7c4dec1aeae078319938a0b
Fixed
dc4b577a083b361d25e118dc96d8281255ebe22c
Fixed
dfdfd987f1917c84766e097a6120a1f3f1634940
Fixed
f02334a9e378f7e07232b26dc3d2ab353339f040
Fixed
f4013598b69457dbea350df52e52daea6faef8eb
Fixed
1b8fb5a20508bfb0db854e01214888c761b3a911
Fixed
c1cda72f6acec02ebd45d913bf8527ff77336ba6
Fixed
9f29cd8a8e7901a2617c8064ce9f50fc67b97cb8

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68297.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.18.0
Fixed
5.10.265
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.216
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.183
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.148
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.101
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.42
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-68297.json"