CVE-2026-98401
UnknownSummary
A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's iptunnel handling causes a stale transport_header offset during tunnel decapsulation of GSO packets. This leads to a negative offset and subsequent KASAN fault or page fault in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init(). The issue occurs when encapsulated GSO packets are forwarded at L2 by a bridge or HSR instead of being delivered to the local IP stack.
Risk Assessment
Can cause kernel crashes (panic/oops) and denial of service on systems processing tunneled GSO traffic, e.g., in bridge or HSR configurations. Although multiple conditions must align, the risk is real in production environments with such traffic.
Recommendation
Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit described in the CVE), which clears transport_header in gro_cell for all tunnel drivers and drops GSO packets in GTP. Until patching, consider restricting tunneled GSO traffic through bridges/HSR or monitoring for crashes.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
See all- CVE-2026-98431Unknown
The Linux kernel contains an ABBA deadlock between the mmap_lock and disassociation_lock in the RDMA/uverbs subsystem. A thread performing mmap/fork acquires locks in the order mmap_lock → disassociation_lock, while the thread executing uverbs_user_mmap_disassociate() acquires them in reverse order, leading to a potential deadlock. The issue was resolved by removing disassociation_lock and using the existing hw_destroy_rwsem instead.
- CVE-2026-98430Unknown
In the Linux kernel, the RDMA/efa management IRQ handler accesses both the admin completion queue and the async event queue. The driver registered the IRQ before constructing these queues and destroyed them before freeing the IRQ, so the handler's lifetime was not contained by the resources it accesses. The fix initializes the queues with interrupts masked, requests the IRQ, then switches to interrupt mode, and on removal resets the device and frees the IRQ before destroying the queues.
- CVE-2026-98429Unknown
In the Linux kernel, the RDMA/efa completion IRQ handler accesses the EQ state and DMA buffer. Its IRQ was registered before that state was initialized, while teardown released the buffer before free_irq() synchronized the handler. The fix initializes the EQ without arming it, registers the IRQ, then arms it, and reverses the resource order during teardown by freeing the IRQ before destroying the EQ.
- CVE-2026-98428Unknown
In the Linux kernel, the USB 6fire driver uses URBs embedded in different structs for PCM, MIDI and communication, which is a buggy implementation nowadays; since a URB is managed with a refcount, this may lead to a UAF when the URB is released asynchronously. The fix converts those embedded URBs to ones properly allocated via usb_alloc_urb(), changing each embedded struct urb to a pointer and updating callers; resources are released in common destructors called at both the init error path and disconnect.
- CVE-2026-98427Unknown
In the Linux kernel, the CoDel scheduler's dropping loop in codel_dequeue() could fail to advance with very small interval values, draining the entire backlog under the qdisc lock in a single call. An unprivileged user could trigger a soft lockup this way. The fix ensures the control-law step is at least 1 tick and caps the dropping loop at 256 drops per codel_dequeue() call.
- CVE-2026-98426Unknown
In the Linux kernel, the mwifiex wifi driver's mwifiex_pcie_request_irq() registers each MSI-X vector with a per-index dev_id (&card->msix_ctx[i]). On a request_irq() failure the cleanup loop "for (j = 0; j < i; j++)" frees msix_entries[j].vector but passes the failed index's &card->msix_ctx[i] as the dev_id. Since free_irq() matches on (irq, dev_id), it fails to find the action registered with &card->msix_ctx[j]: the already-requested IRQ j is not freed (leaked) and free_irq() warns about freeing a non-existent IRQ. The fix uses &card->msix_ctx[j].
- CVE-2026-98425Unknown
In the Linux kernel, ieee80211_request_ibss_scan() in mac80211 warns when the regulatory domain leaves no allowed channel to scan. This can happen because the regdomain can change while IBSS is operating, and IBSS can continue to operate briefly during the 60s grace period until it is shut down. The fix removes the warning in this case.
- CVE-2026-98424Unknown
In the Linux kernel, cfg80211_switch_netns() in cfg80211 moves all interfaces, then moves the wiphy itself by setting its network namespace and renaming it, which makes sysfs move it. The rename can fail (only on allocation failures), leaving things mixed up and hitting a warning. The fix undoes the move and lets the change fail, and if undo fails it WARNs.
- CVE-2026-98423Unknown
In the Linux kernel, mac80211_hwsim checks ->started for frames coming from wmediumd, but the radio can be stopped after the check and before frame delivery, causing mac80211 to hit WARN_ON(!local->started). The fix expands the mutex for this case and synchronizes against it when the radio is stopped, and drops an error print that complicated the error path.
- CVE-2026-98422Unknown
In the Linux kernel, mac80211 AP_VLAN interfaces get crypto_tx_tailroom_needed_cnt from the AP interface on ifup, but it is never decremented unless the AP is also brought down. Bringing the same AP_VLAN up again increments the counter again and eventually hits the WARN_ON_ONCE sanity check. The fix resets it on ifdown.
Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: iptunnel: fix stale transport header during tunnel decapsulation Syzbot reported a crash in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init() caused by a stale transport_header offset after tunnel decapsulation. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed102091a42e Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 340 Comm: qdisc_uaf_repro Not tainted 7.2.0-rc4-00061-g248951ddc14d #256 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__asan_load2 <IRQ> qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init (net/core/dev.c:4145) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4787) br_dev_queue_push_xmit (net/bridge/br_forward.c:53) br_handle_frame_finish (net/bridge/br_input.c:229) br_handle_frame (net/bridge/br_input.c:315) __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0 (net/core/dev.c:6099) __netif_receive_skb_list_core (net/core/dev.c:6287) netif_receive_skb_list_internal (net/core/dev.c:6445) napi_complete_done (net/core/dev.c:6813) gro_cell_poll (net/core/gro_cells.c:74) __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7735) net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7798 net/core/dev.c:7955) handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622) do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:523 kernel/softirq.c:510 ) __local_bh_enable_ip (kernel/softirq.c:450) tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1986 (discriminator 1)) tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2032) The issue is completely latent until qdisc read transport header in commit 7fb4c1967011 ("net: pull headers in qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init()"). The crash requires four conditions to line up: 1. The incoming packet is encapsulated and carries GSO metadata. The outer transport header offset is stored in skb->transport_header while the packet is still in the outer tunnel context. 2. The tunnel receiver strips the outer headers. skb->data is advanced to the inner frame, but skb->transport_header is left pointing to the now-removed outer L4 header, so it becomes a negative offset relative to the new data. 3. The inner frame is not delivered to the local IP stack. Instead, it is forwarded at L2 by a bridge or HSR, so ip_rcv_core() never runs and the transport header is not reset to the inner L4 offset. 4. The forwarding path calls __dev_queue_xmit(), which enters qdisc_pkt_len_segs_init(). That function computes the GSO header length from skb_transport_offset(skb). Because the offset is negative, the unsigned cast overflows and pskb_may_pull(skb, hdr_len + sizeof(struct tcphdr)) reads past the end of the skb, triggering a KASAN fault or page fault. The issue specifically requires GSO packets (shinfo->gso_size != 0), which are processed/aggregated through gro_cells. Fix this by clearing transport_header to the ~0U sentinel in gro_cell for all tunnnel driver. GTP does not support GRO/GSO, drop the evil GSO packets in GTP directly.
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