CVE-2026-72326 net/sched: cake: reject overhead values that underflow length

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cake: reject overhead values that underflow length CAKE accepts signed overhead values and stores them in an s16, but the adjusted packet length calculation uses unsigned arithmetic. A negative effective length can...

EUVD-2026-59225

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cake: reject overhead values that underflow length CAKE accepts signed overhead values and stores them in an s16, but the adjusted packet length calculation uses unsigned arithmetic. A negative effective length can...

CVE-2026-72326

CVE-2026-72326 affects the Linux kernel’s net/sched cake scheduler. CAKE accepts signed overhead values stored in an s16, but the adjusted packet length calculation uses unsigned arithmetic, allowing a negative effective length to wrap to a large value. This can cause rate accounting to depend on...