CVE-2026-80925EPSS p4.2%
CVE-2026-80925CVE-2026-80925
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vlan: fix skb_under_panic and races when toggling HW VLAN offload
Toggling hardware VLAN TX offload (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX or
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_TX) on a lower device invokes vlan_transfer_features(),
which dynamically changed vlandev->hard_header_len.
This causes two issues:
1. Lockless TX paths (e.g. packet_snd in af_packet.c, ip6_finish_output2)
read dev->hard_header_len without holding RTNL lock. Mutating
hard_header_len dynamically under RTNL creates a data race where upper
layers reserve insufficient headroom based on a stale hard_header_len,
resulting in skb_under_panic when vlan_dev_hard_header() is called.
2. In addition, vlan_transfer_features() updated hard_header_len without
updating header_ops, causing a mismatch between allocated headroom
and header creation.
Always setting dev->hard_header_len = real_dev->hard_header_len and
dev->needed_headroom = real_dev->needed_headroom + VLA
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.16% probability of exploitation · percentile 4.2% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-03 |