CVE-2026-80847
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.
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Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versions
< 7.2.5-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.5-1.1
- (no CPE)range: >= 2.6.12, < 6.18.51
Patches
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/31cf2349361902769dc323e4dbf4b449795ec288nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b8c20bf61924dfc38fefb145c9f7406d73fae53nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/870a9e42ecc6fe1b8c25d87af043cb0d9c178fe1nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfb44c6028e6f979720315e0772bbd0d4d33ed61nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaf4af9bd6975c2eff8d48820937c83032d968dcnvd
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