CVE-2026-68287CWE-131

CVE-2026-68287

High · published August 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
51.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

drop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes

net_dm_packet_report_fill() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_fill() use

nla_put_u64_64bit() to append 64-bit attributes (NET_DM_ATTR_PC and

NET_DM_ATTR_TIMESTAMP).

On 32-bit architectures without CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS,

nla_put_u64_64bit() may append a 4-byte NET_DM_ATTR_PAD attribute for

64-bit alignment.

However, net_dm_packet_report_size() and net_dm_hw_packet_report_size()

used nla_total_size(sizeof(u64)) instead of nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)),

budgeting 12 bytes instead of up to 16 bytes.

This under-estimation of SKB size can lead to an skb_over_panic() when

__nla_reserve() or skb_put() is subsequently called.

Fix this by using nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(u64)) in both size calculations.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00675 · 51.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-131 · Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
Published
2026-08-10T17:20Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 AUG 12:02Z
    drop_monitor: fix size calculations for 64-bit attributes
    cvelistv5