CVE-2026-80681

critical

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: re-fetch eth header after route_shortcircuit() Before route_shortcircuit(), the eth header pointer is cached from eth_hdr(skb). Inside route_shortcircuit(), pskb_may_pull() can be called, which may reallocate skb->head. In this case, returning to vxlan_xmit() leaves the cached eth pointer pointing to freed memory, leading to a use-after-free when dereferencing eth->h_dest. Fix this by updating eth = eth_hdr(skb) after calling route_shortcircuit().

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9dceac9e1c7c772c43c732fc0d325e72835801a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf045341dfb3e767f0ff94cf240ce3c371973bd4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6375093eb45cd7d89f1945f939eeae3b29d79f56

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2355c8c26d2aa1b4385b369e67202e47d460d555

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b7f7b653e3557690047c62f03b80a24ea5a58a5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1511631b7cfc4152b10a0a9d04c7a0bf2ddf4585

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1395a676ec15a0a02a2a6d86602324f2d5fd41d5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1235e017aa11cf01e91b613c4c5ed6aa28934fff

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-28

Updated: 2026-08-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00176