CVE-2026-74473

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee799977d7941dbfb11049e17edd9eaf4f8820f7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa0d31376d574ac858a40078431a77127bf04ee4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f3f96e771a20263635bb5e1307c112d613b4bbd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42887be7c4cf283cce02cd0fb6411221167c8b6c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26bb2dd0a8839617e2c79ffbbe1923f8e4bab9fb

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00168