CVE-2026-52940

MEDIUM

tun: zero the whole vnet header in tun_put_user()

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 1.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.17.0 - 6.18.36linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.13linux
Linux/Linux < 6.17
Linux/Linux 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 - 585cb85e9a29185be05f326369573c2663cf4380
Linux/Linux 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 - 5fd1fa5a4254bfdd70571c77f5e3bcb4e43738d5
Linux/Linux 288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37 - 7f2fcff15e99bb852f6967396ed12b38376e2c8d
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux 6.18.36 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 7.0.13 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux 7.1
... and 2 more
Published Jun 24, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 24, 2026