CVE-2026-52940 PUBLISHED

tun: zero the whole vnet header in tun_put_user()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 24.06.2026 Updated: 24.06.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 to 5fd1fa5a4254bfdd70571c77f5e3bcb4e43738d5 (excl.)
  • affected from 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 to 585cb85e9a29185be05f326369573c2663cf4380 (excl.)
  • affected from 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 to 7f2fcff15e99bb852f6967396ed12b38376e2c8d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.17 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.17 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.36 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.13 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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