In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
skbuff: Account for tail adjustment during pull operations
Extending the tail can have some unexpected side effects if a program uses
a helper like BPF_FUNC_skb_pull_data to read partial content beyond the
head skb headlen when all the skbs in the gso frag_list are linear with no
head_frag -
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:4219!
pc : skb_segment+0xcf4/0xd2c
lr : skb_segment+0x63c/0xd2c
Call trace:
skb_segment+0xcf4/0xd2c
__udp_gso_segment+0xa4/0x544
udp4_ufo_fragment+0x184/0x1c0
inet_gso_segment+0x16c/0x3a4
skb_mac_gso_segment+0xd4/0x1b0
__skb_gso_segment+0xcc/0x12c
udp_rcv_segment+0x54/0x16c
udp_queue_rcv_skb+0x78/0x144
udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x8c/0xa4
__udp4_lib_rcv+0x490/0x68c
udp_rcv+0x20/0x30
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x1b0/0x33c
ip_local_deliver+0xd8/0x1f0
ip_rcv+0x98/0x1a4
deliver_ptype_list_skb+0x98/0x1ec
__netif_receive_skb_core+0x978/0xc60
Fix this by marking these skbs as GSO_DODGY so segmentation can handle
the tail updates accordingly.
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it