CVE-2026-31502 (GCVE-0-2026-31502)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-22 13:54 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:23
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
team: fix header_ops type confusion with non-Ethernet ports
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a , < 420e5aad7ba89e8f79e2dc8327b0c0c24c1c1d53
(git)
Affected: 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a , < 6d3161fa3eee64d46b766fb0db33ec7f300ef52d (git) Affected: 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a , < 0a7468ed49a6b65d34abcc6eb60e15f7f6d34da0 (git) Affected: 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a , < 20491d384d973a63fbdaf7a71e38d69b0659ea55 (git) Affected: 1d76efe1577b4323609b1bcbfafa8b731eda071a , < 425000dbf17373a4ab8be9428f5dc055ef870a56 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
3.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.7 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.80 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.21 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.11 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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