CVE-2026-98568 PUBLISHED

vxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies

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

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

vxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies

vxlan_na_create() samples LL_RESERVED_SPACE() to size the reply skb and then samples it again to reserve headroom. A concurrent vxlan_changelink() can update needed_headroom between the two reads, creating a TOCTOU race. The second value can exceed the allocation and make the Ethernet header write out of bounds.

The race is reproducible on the unpatched kernel. It occurred when vxlan_na_create() generated a neighbour reply while vxlan_changelink() changed the link headroom. KASAN caught a four-byte write two bytes beyond a 704-byte skbuff_small_head allocation.

Snapshot the headroom once and use that value for both allocation and reservation.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa to 45a67662bf8ce3aa5643accf98d328dfbb47eaf6 (excl.)
  • affected from 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa to 315d42ca39f69846662961c25dcf2bb07c350d14 (excl.)
  • affected from 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa to a3c5eb6e382dd426a5e7eb08608897ed57167ff7 (excl.)
  • affected from 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa to ff022fd9d0f0282c575e11778b96bd1b637503eb (excl.)
  • affected from 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa to 481506a756dcd828ef42391cb08f38d8d96d38fc (excl.)
  • Version d8be18c52dbc94989f6d74637b731af39cd3d902 is affected
  • Version 3927dace523706cc00f808520eaf2125dd7c07b5 is affected
  • affected from 3.12.18 to 3.13 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.13.10 to 3.14 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.14 (excl.)
  • 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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