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
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
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
- CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6e255b0ce30cdea37e34d6d87e2212eb8c7f7a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/420e5aad7ba89e8f79e2dc8327b0c0c24c1c1d53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d3161fa3eee64d46b766fb0db33ec7f300ef52d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a7468ed49a6b65d34abcc6eb60e15f7f6d34da0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20491d384d973a63fbdaf7a71e38d69b0659ea55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/425000dbf17373a4ab8be9428f5dc055ef870a56
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