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CVE-2026-63912

critical

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: esp: restore combined single-frag length gate The ESP out-of-place fast path append…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: esp: restore combined single-frag length gate The ESP out-of-place fast path appends the trailer in esp_output_head() before esp_output_tail() allocates the destination page frag. The head-side gate currently checks skb->data_len and tailen separately, but the tail code allocates a single destination frag from the combined post-trailer skb->data_len. Reject the page-frag fast path when the combined aligned length exceeds a page. Otherwise skb_page_frag_refill() may fall back to a single page while the destination sg still spans the combined skb->data_len. Restore this combined-length page gate for both IPv4 and IPv6.

CVSS
9.8
9.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-07-19 16:17
Modified: 2026-10-30 17:56
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 07:34 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥4.14.288 <4.15, ≥4.19.252 <4.20, ≥5.4.205 <5.5, ≥5.10.113 <5.10.259, ≥5.15.36 <5.15.210, ≥5.17.5 <5.18

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/322e48187e0245ab2fff6fec2220b0cae677dbec
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36519e3d941fc99d3b52c134dbaf311f987a4708
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/566295735530ee513326049b0540f32ec050bf2e
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7ab86e2b6bc23054616bf6ac562013bf60af8c
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65f3b3fc2347b89fe21db1e92c7681368415f095
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b84091ceddc9f133229dceab3ccc930bf27f9cba
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c093468aea8277f77272a4f199b2e15e19cabb59
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfa0d7b0ff1eb6b2c416b8fdb9b4f2cefba57a40

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 07:34 UTC · record ↗

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