CVE-2026-80978

Published: September 15, 2026Last modified: September 15, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: cap advertised IP tunnel headroom IP tunnel devices derive their advertised needed_headroom from lower output devices. A stack of user-created devices can make the derived value larger than the 16-bit skb header offsets can represent. Once IP output reserves it, skb head expansion can wrap those offsets. The runtime transmit path already caps a growing needed_headroom at 512. Apply the same cap when tunnel configuration publishes needed_headroom derived from a lower output device. Capping the advertised value is safe: IP tunnel transmit still expands the skb when a packet needs more headroom. A nonsensical stacked configuration can therefore incur an extra reallocation, but it cannot publish an unbounded reservation to upper layers.

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b222adeb9340306e2ff97127c76117abb9b3df8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9144f2c53a04465a6878172b523f640313c5559e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af0ee8f04bea22cdb331fa3509e17f81b48938ad
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc4e05ae66c9797a0972ac44326e69c5305e0020