CVE-2026-74473 PUBLISHED

vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() in route_shortcircuit()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 15.08.2026 Updated: 15.08.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() in route_shortcircuit()

route_shortcircuit() currently calls pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr)) (or ipv6hdr), which checks if bytes are available starting from skb->data.

However, in vxlan_xmit(), skb->data points to the MAC header, so skb_network_offset(skb) is ETH_HLEN (14 bytes). Using pskb_may_pull(skb, 20) only checks 20 bytes from skb->data (which is 14 bytes MAC header + 6 bytes of IP header), leaving the rest of the IP header potentially un-pulled in non-linear frags. Subsequent dereferences of ip_hdr(skb)->daddr can read beyond the pulled linear buffer length.

Fix this by using pskb_network_may_pull(), which adds skb_network_offset(skb) to the length check to ensure the full network header is present in the linear buffer.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to 42887be7c4cf283cce02cd0fb6411221167c8b6c (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to aa0d31376d574ac858a40078431a77127bf04ee4 (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to ee799977d7941dbfb11049e17edd9eaf4f8820f7 (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to 4f3f96e771a20263635bb5e1307c112d613b4bbd (excl.)
  • affected from e4f67addf158f98f8197e08974966b18480dc751 to 26bb2dd0a8839617e2c79ffbbe1923f8e4bab9fb (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.151 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc6 to * (incl.)

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