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.
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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