net: tun: bound receive headroom (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-81000
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.36 % · percentile 29 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tun: bound receive headroom tun_get_user() uses tun->align both as skb headroom and when choosing how much packet data to keep linear. OVS can propagate an oversized headroom request from another port to TUN or TAP. When align is larger than the usable space in a one-page skb head, SKB_MAX_HEAD(align) underflows and the result becomes negative when stored in good_linear. That value later wraps when assigned to the size_t linear variable, and tun_alloc_skb() can place skb->data outside the allocated head. Bound the headroom stored by TUN to the one-page skb-head budget and the largest non-sentinel 16-bit skb header offset. Leave one linear byte for raw TUN and a complete Ethernet header for TAP, including NET_IP_ALIGN. Also pull the raw-TUN protocol byte and the TAP Ethernet header before accessing them, so these checks remain safe for nonlinear skbs supplied by other allocation paths.

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 eaea34b23c46bf17b4a5638be69ab3561854f34b < ad715e713610d2d5473c3a6498c825ccecf26491 ; affected eaea34b23c46bf17b4a5638be69ab3561854f34b < 708e87937de93f445225c134a2e20519f9b4ce60 ; affected eaea34b23c46bf17b4a5638be69ab3561854f34b < 18ef24cdb2eba32e38f1d27f2d02b7b4212e8f76 ; affected eaea34b23c46bf17b4a5638be69ab3561854f34b < 010eee265d6bd8769b6a523d2a0693d9b3f5df43 ; affected eaea34b23c46bf17b4a5638be69ab3561854f34b < 379d85c7f25f3e05a428225e6b8a65613c6e9b9d ; affected eaea34b23c46bf17b4a5638be69ab3561854f34b < e098d9cc8859614a7f7baebc96e32a5a16b18ed2
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.6 ; unaffected 0 < 4.6 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 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