CVE-2026-98526 PUBLISHED

llc: reserve device headroom for allocated frames

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

llc: reserve device headroom for allocated frames

llc_alloc_frame() reserves link-layer headroom using the device type. This is insufficient for stacked Ethernet devices such as VLAN devices, where vlan_dev_hard_header() pushes a VLAN header before the lower device's Ethernet header. An LLC response on such a device can therefore underflow skb headroom in eth_header().

Use LL_RESERVED_SPACE() to account for the device's actual required headroom while preserving the existing LLC device-type check.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to 018020f5a48cc86fdd6dc2d380f6c70443ae7639 (excl.)
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to 3a3f57c4061d9e9cc3bc04205d36ce41ae3406c1 (excl.)
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to 7c38524b2b2456bd33cb360420da6cbf9cad1b33 (excl.)
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to 1937222c2511ac91377d39f28106c34734f5f8c6 (excl.)
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to 16ceac2daa89dd16917bc488ab05b9dd6961a603 (excl.)
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to e06f8b6e27cc616d3c587e9784c4a033eb310a16 (excl.)
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to 3361c93e417384ebf28003e0fb6d5304653d3b05 (excl.)
  • affected from bf9ae5386bca8836c16e69ab8fdbe46767d7452a to 72b5b9a28b996e09b8b5b944370c79851bb68f52 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.34 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.34 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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