CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80847
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: clamp route advmss to TCP_MIN_MSS
tcp_select_initial_window() assumes that callers never pass an MSS
smaller than 1, but route-derived advmss values can violate that
assumption.
A too-small explicit RTAX_ADVMSS is one way to get there, but it is not
the only one. The same divide-by-zero can also be reached through the
"default advmss" path when RTAX_ADVMSS is left at 0 and the effective
advmss is later driven down by route MTU and min_adv_mss.
Introduce a tcp_dst_advmss() helper that clamps route advmss to
TCP_MIN_MSS before TCP consumes it, and use it in the TCP paths that
derive advmss from dst metrics. This keeps the effective MSS from
dropping to zero before tcp_select_initial_window() rounds the receive
window.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31cf2349361902769dc323e4dbf4b449795ec288 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b8c20bf61924dfc38fefb145c9f7406d73fae53 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/788fbbf7d61f9742298417c207c91b6db159fbbc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/870a9e42ecc6fe1b8c25d87af043cb0d9c178fe1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfb44c6028e6f979720315e0772bbd0d4d33ed61 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaf4af9bd6975c2eff8d48820937c83032d968dc git.kernel.org