Linux Pedit Offset Out Of Bounds — Detection Rule
The following detects a Linux kernel warning message containing "tc action pedit offset" and "out of bounds" logged to syslog, which indicates the act_pedit attempted to write past the bounds of an allocated packet buffer. This condition is associated with CVE-2026-46331, a kernel vulnerability that can be exploited via crafted pedit netlink configurations combined with page cache poisoning to achieve privilege escalation. The presence of this message on a host is a strong indicator that exploitation of this vulnerability, or triggering of the underlying vulnerable code path, has occurred.