CVE-2026-80846 (GCVE-0-2026-80846)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-04 15:54 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:44
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device
ESP-in-TCP receives records through the TCP strparser. handle_esp()
restores skb->dev from the saved skb_iif before passing the packet into
the XFRM input path.
Queued TCP data can be processed after the original ingress device has
been removed, for example during veth or net namespace teardown. In that
case dev_get_by_index_rcu() returns NULL. The XFRM IPv4 and IPv6 input
paths both expect skb->dev to be valid while building the route lookup,
so queued ESP-in-TCP data can dereference a NULL device.
Drop the packet if the saved ingress device can no longer be resolved.
Such a packet can no longer be routed through the normal XFRM receive
path, and this preserves the existing behaviour for packets whose ingress
device still exists.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < 239d0f71af09dc2029fd4d730cb24b8c83aaa43a
(git)
Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < f00235f9d12301183d61f75fbe4105506f3e5140 (git) Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < 6af5cdb03819a5ce6e945992635c6c5e91045367 (git) Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < 2dd1609cadff46c4b20ce53b91ab9cce1380456a (git) Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < c296d25efbc840be24de83f56d43bc47e714ace9 (git) Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < 328e40aa774b446969c69b654c52a051a95af8a1 (git) Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < 7911e0236616487b89db6bd3ba3f408abd10eb23 (git) Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < 943d95233b8b4a88994e244fcf466f8c403d63f1 (git) Affected: e27cca96cd68fa2c6814c90f9a1cfd36bb68c593 , < e1d7c5ac1c246ce5775f604515de0a59fbf2116e (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.269 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.220 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.187 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.156 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.108 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.49 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.13 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.3 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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