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CVE-2026-74473

Critical · CVSS 9.8
CVSS
9.8
nvd
EPSS
0.46%
38th pct
KEV
No
Class
oss containerizable

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() in route_shortcircuit() route_shortcircuit() currently calls pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr)) (or ipv6hdr), which checks if bytes are available starting from skb->data. However, in vxlan_xmit(), skb->data points to the MAC header, so skb_network_offset(skb) is ETH_HLEN (14 bytes). Using pskb_may_pull(skb, 20) only checks 20 bytes from skb->data (which is 14 bytes MAC header + 6 bytes of IP header), leaving the rest of the IP header potentially un-pulled in non-linear frags. Subsequent dereferences of ip_hdr(skb)->daddr can read beyond the pulled linear buffer length. Fix this by using pskb_network_may_pull(), which adds skb_network_offset(skb) to the length check to ensure the full network header is present in the linear buffer.

Affected packages

Linux Kernel 3.8.0 → 6.6.151
Linux Kernel 6.13.0 → 6.18.44
Linux Kernel 6.19.0 → 7.1.8
Linux Kernel 6.7.0 → 6.12.103

References

Status: profiled · ingested 2026-08-19T18:00:49.000Z