CVE-2026-31700

Published: May 2, 2026Last modified: May 2, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd() In tpacket_snd(), when PACKET_VNET_HDR is enabled, vnet_hdr points directly into the mmap'd TX ring buffer shared with userspace. The kernel validates the header via __packet_snd_vnet_parse() but then re-reads all fields later in virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(). A concurrent userspace thread can modify the vnet_hdr fields between validation and use, bypassing all safety checks. The non-TPACKET path (packet_snd()) already correctly copies vnet_hdr to a stack-local variable. All other vnet_hdr consumers in the kernel (tun.c, tap.c, virtio_net.c) also use stack copies. The TPACKET TX path is the only caller of virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() that reads directly from user-controlled shared memory. Fix this by copying vnet_hdr from the mmap'd ring buffer to a stack-local variable before validation and use, consistent with the approach used in packet_snd() and all other callers.

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28324a3b62d9ce7f9bdd65a8ce63f382041d1b27
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c054e17d9d41f1020376806c7f750834ced4dc5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a1bf9116ea31470b89692585c3910dfe830dcdd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48a6ef291a17639e1b6ae0fbe9c8b2bb87d7804b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74e2db36fe50e3ad9d5300d7fd0e6e2a15a6d121