CVE-2026-72296

CVE CVE-2026-72296EUVD EUVD-2026-59195Published 2026-08-15T05:55:17.000ZLast changed 2026-08-17T05:42:29.000ZCVSS 9.1

What the advisory describes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode() ife decode may return after making only the outer IFE header and metadata pullable. The caller then passes the decapsulated packet to eth_type_trans(), which expects the inner Ethernet header to be accessible from the linear data area. With a malformed IFE frame, the inner Ethernet header may still be shorter than ETH_HLEN in the linear area, which can lead to a crash in the original code. Fix this by extending the pull check in ife_decode() so that the inner Ethernet header is also guaranteed to be pullable before returning.

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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Linux — Linux patch: 7.2; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <9406f6012b7343661efb516a11c62d4db2b62f75; patch: 6.12.97; patch: 6.18.40; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <8c8818e52fddb247ff3214622401a4de6ff8482e; patch: 0; 4.6; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <1cb42ec10294a55380e52e674b3df2b962648242; patch: 7.1.5; patch: 6.1.178; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <70013f9163bef7fbd9fa62f81cf91b2a7ba66163; patch: 5.15.212; patch: 5.10.261; patch: 6.6.145; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <9433578bff9c100c466a6354574892e55293cb8f; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <b69ad768cd4a2ef4e07c18492ae85438ed17c7cb; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <be272e159dfe1207b67332ad6e17adcf59b4ea4b; ef6980b6becb1afd9d82a4f043749a10ae81bf14 <5526d1997aea6c9bd865ca4d4894b52e799d735c

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