CVE-2026-80978

net: cap advertised IP tunnel headroom

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 11, 2026 at 07:42 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1a37e412a0225fcba5587f24c0dfc7636efc8b693.11
Vendor states this is fixed in 6b222adeb9340306e2ff97127c76117abb9b3df8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 84783961cb8bdb36b4f41a02ce43aafc6d52b176 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9144f2c53a04465a6878172b523f640313c5559e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in af0ee8f04bea22cdb331fa3509e17f81b48938ad (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b160422f8103574425e2834130e169d84c94fa1d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bc4e05ae66c9797a0972ac44326e69c5305e0020 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d36e75f5669140b66515ad3a176ca6337bd80a5e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fb889a619723032140f5d983a3a34d25a5a2bed4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.109 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.50 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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