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CVE-2026-52940

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tun: zero the whole vnet header in tun_put_user() tun_put_user() declares an on-stack struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash_tunnel without zeroing it. For a non-tunnel skb, virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() only initializes the first 10 bytes (sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr)), leaving bytes 10..23 (num_buffers and the hash/tunnel fields) as stack garbage. An unprivileged user can set the vnet header size to 24 with TUNSETVNETHDRSZ, so __tun_vnet_hdr_put() copies all 24 bytes of the partially-initialized struct to userspace, leaking 14 bytes of kernel stack on every read of a non-tunnel packet. Fix it the same way tun_get_user() already does by zeroing the whole header right after declaration.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-52940
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-24 07:14 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-24 07:14 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 < 5fd1fa5a4254bfdd70571c77f5e3bcb4e43738d5, 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 < 585cb85e9a29185be05f326369573c2663cf4380, 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 < 7f2fcff15e99bb852f6967396ed12b38376e2c8d
Linux Linux 6.17, 0 < 6.17, 6.18.36 ≤ 6.18.*, 7.0.13 ≤ 7.0.* …
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