packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74582
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths packet_snd() reads dev->hard_header_len multiple times while allocating and constructing an skb. Device reconfiguration can change this value concurrently, for example through bonding device type changes. For SOCK_RAW, packet_snd() can save a larger value in reserve and later allocate headroom using a smaller value. Moving skb->data back by reserve then places it before skb->head, and the following copy from userspace can attempt an out-of-bounds write. packet_sendmsg_spkt() has the same issue because it calculates its reservation and header offset from separate reads before dropping the RCU read lock to allocate the skb. Add LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EX() for callers that already saved a header length. Read hard_header_len once in packet_snd() and use it for allocation and construction. In packet_sendmsg_spkt(), preserve the allocation-time value through the device lookup retry. The separate SOCK_DGRAM consistency problem between hard_header_len and header_ops->create is not addressed here.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b84bbaf7a6c8cca24f8acf25a2c8e46913a947ba < bcd4df60ac9481b1ceffdfe5ec38fe51dcaae812 ; affected b84bbaf7a6c8cca24f8acf25a2c8e46913a947ba < 78a47127e33c340bc6d38dcc4552a094b4f5cc77 ; affected b84bbaf7a6c8cca24f8acf25a2c8e46913a947ba < 142e287b3a25cfe909215177c23243e7fc5ae2b1 ; affected b84bbaf7a6c8cca24f8acf25a2c8e46913a947ba < 91f041451f967cd87ed722a8f43c0b767a64f1a0 ; affected b84bbaf7a6c8cca24f8acf25a2c8e46913a947ba < 9052756290962ffb9a661bcf319e92dedaaedfed ; affected b84bbaf7a6c8cca24f8acf25a2c8e46913a947ba < 5bb10753d428aadfc356a2bfe9acea09c82a62ec
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.17 ; unaffected 0 < 4.17 ; unaffected 5.10.267 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.218 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.185 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.152 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD