CVE-2026-72296 (GCVE-0-2026-72296)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:55
Modified
2026-08-17 05:42
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode()
ife decode may return after making only the outer IFE header and
metadata pullable. The caller then passes the decapsulated packet to
eth_type_trans(), which expects the inner Ethernet header to be
accessible from the linear data area.
With a malformed IFE frame, the inner Ethernet header may still be
shorter than ETH_HLEN in the linear area, which can lead to a crash in
the original code.
Fix this by extending the pull check in ife_decode() so that the inner
Ethernet header is also guaranteed to be pullable before returning.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 Version: ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 |
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