CVE-2026-52940

tun: zero the whole vnet header in tun_put_user()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 24, 2026
Updated
Jun 24, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

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

tun: zero the whole vnet header in tun_put_user()

tun_put_user() declares an on-stack struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash_tunnel without zeroing it. For a non-tunnel skb, virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() only initializes the first 10 bytes (sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr)), leaving bytes 10..23 (num_buffers and the hash/tunnel fields) as stack garbage.

An unprivileged user can set the vnet header size to 24 with TUNSETVNETHDRSZ, so __tun_vnet_hdr_put() copies all 24 bytes of the partially-initialized struct to userspace, leaking 14 bytes of kernel stack on every read of a non-tunnel packet.

Fix it the same way tun_get_user() already does by zeroing the whole header right after declaration.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 to before 5fd1fa5a4254bfdd70571c77f5e3bcb4e43738d5Affected
  • 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 to before 585cb85e9a29185be05f326369573c2663cf4380Affected
  • 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 to before 7f2fcff15e99bb852f6967396ed12b38376e2c8dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.17Affected
  • before 6.17Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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