vxlan: re-fetch eth header after route_shortcircuit() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80681
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.50 % · percentile 43 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: re-fetch eth header after route_shortcircuit() Before route_shortcircuit(), the eth header pointer is cached from eth_hdr(skb). Inside route_shortcircuit(), pskb_may_pull() can be called, which may reallocate skb->head. In this case, returning to vxlan_xmit() leaves the cached eth pointer pointing to freed memory, leading to a use-after-free when dereferencing eth->h_dest. Fix this by updating eth = eth_hdr(skb) after calling route_shortcircuit().

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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 ae8840825605f36f98f247323edc150e761cb64e < 6375093eb45cd7d89f1945f939eeae3b29d79f56 ; affected ae8840825605f36f98f247323edc150e761cb64e < 1b7f7b653e3557690047c62f03b80a24ea5a58a5 ; affected ae8840825605f36f98f247323edc150e761cb64e < bf045341dfb3e767f0ff94cf240ce3c371973bd4 ; affected ae8840825605f36f98f247323edc150e761cb64e < 2355c8c26d2aa1b4385b369e67202e47d460d555 ; affected ae8840825605f36f98f247323edc150e761cb64e < 1511631b7cfc4152b10a0a9d04c7a0bf2ddf4585 ; affected ae8840825605f36f98f247323edc150e761cb64e < 1235e017aa11cf01e91b613c4c5ed6aa28934fff
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.10 ; unaffected 0 < 3.10 ; unaffected 5.10.265 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.216 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.151 ≤ 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