CVE-2026-31502

team: fix header_ops type confusion with non-Ethernet ports

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Apr 22, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Mar 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

team: fix header_ops type confusion with non-Ethernet ports

Similar to commit 950803f72547 ("bonding: fix type confusion in bond_setup_by_slave()") team has the same class of header_ops type confusion.

For non-Ethernet ports, team_setup_by_port() copies port_dev->header_ops directly. When the team device later calls dev_hard_header() or dev_parse_header(), these callbacks can run with the team net_device instead of the real lower device, so netdev_priv(dev) is interpreted as the wrong private type and can crash.

The syzbot report shows a crash in bond_header_create(), but the root cause is in team: the topology is gre -> bond -> team, and team calls the inherited header_ops with its own net_device instead of the lower device, so bond_header_create() receives a team device and interprets netdev_priv() as bonding private data, causing a type confusion crash.

Fix this by introducing team header_ops wrappers for create/parse, selecting a team port under RCU, and calling the lower device callbacks with port->dev, so each callback always sees the correct net_device context.

Also pass the selected lower device to the lower parse callback, so recursion is bounded in stacked non-Ethernet topologies and parse callbacks always run with the correct device context.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a to before c6e255b0ce30cdea37e34d6d87e2212eb8c7f7a4Affected
  • 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a to before 420e5aad7ba89e8f79e2dc8327b0c0c24c1c1d53Affected
  • 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a to before 6d3161fa3eee64d46b766fb0db33ec7f300ef52dAffected
  • 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a to before 0a7468ed49a6b65d34abcc6eb60e15f7f6d34da0Affected
  • 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a to before 20491d384d973a63fbdaf7a71e38d69b0659ea55Affected
  • 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a to before 425000dbf17373a4ab8be9428f5dc055ef870a56Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.7Affected
  • before 3.7Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.80 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.21 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.11 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

References

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