CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98568
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies
vxlan_na_create() samples LL_RESERVED_SPACE() to size the reply skb and then
samples it again to reserve headroom. A concurrent vxlan_changelink() can
update needed_headroom between the two reads, creating a TOCTOU race. The
second value can exceed the allocation and make the Ethernet header write out
of bounds.
The race is reproducible on the unpatched kernel. It occurred when
vxlan_na_create() generated a neighbour reply while vxlan_changelink() changed
the link headroom. KASAN caught a four-byte write two bytes beyond a 704-byte
skbuff_small_head allocation.
Snapshot the headroom once and use that value for both allocation and
reservation.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/315d42ca39f69846662961c25dcf2bb07c350d14 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a67662bf8ce3aa5643accf98d328dfbb47eaf6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/481506a756dcd828ef42391cb08f38d8d96d38fc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3c5eb6e382dd426a5e7eb08608897ed57167ff7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff022fd9d0f0282c575e11778b96bd1b637503eb git.kernel.org