CVE-2026-31502

HIGH

team: fix header_ops type confusion with non-Ethernet ports

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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 v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-843
Status published
Products (13)
Linux/Linux < 3.7
Linux/Linux 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a - 0a7468ed49a6b65d34abcc6eb60e15f7f6d34da0
Linux/Linux 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a - 20491d384d973a63fbdaf7a71e38d69b0659ea55
Linux/Linux 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a - 425000dbf17373a4ab8be9428f5dc055ef870a56
Linux/Linux 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a - 6d3161fa3eee64d46b766fb0db33ec7f300ef52d
Linux/Linux 3.7
Linux/Linux 6.12.80 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.21 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.11 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
... and 3 more
Published Apr 22, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 22, 2026