Report: CVE-2026-43057 - net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM GSO fallback - Full Analysis

Report: CVE-2026-43057 - net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM GSO fallback - Full Analysis

CVE ID :CVE-2026-43057 Published : May 1, 2026, 3:16 p.m. | 14 minutes ago Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: correctly handle tunneled traffic on IPV6_CSUM GSO fallback NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM only advertises support for checksum offload of packets without IPv6 extension headers. Packets with extension headers must fall back onto software checksumming. Since TSO depends on checksum offload, those must revert to GSO. The below commit introduces that fallback. It always checks network header length. For tunneled packets, the inner header length must be checked instead. Extend the check accordingly. A special case is tunneled packets without inner IP protocol. Such as RFC 6951 SCTP in UDP. Those are not standard IPv6 followed by transport header either, so also must revert to the software GSO path. Severity: 0.0 | NA Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more...

CVE Details

Published
May 1, 2026
Affected Product: Linux
Attack Vector: network