CVE-2026-23451 (GCVE-0-2026-23451)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 15:15 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:21
VLAI
Title
bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bonding: prevent potential infinite loop in bond_header_parse() bond_header_parse() can loop if a stack of two bonding devices is setup, because skb->dev always points to the hierarchy top. Add new "const struct net_device *dev" parameter to (struct header_ops)->parse() method to make sure the recursion is bounded, and that the final leaf parse method is called.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5d0fb9806ab6cf2c3cfba0e1b8c701da65e25af8 , < 9532d0d0ad1d726c06f807e8f0f1ec93cbabb452 (git)
Affected: 9baf26a91565b7bb2b1d9f99aaf884a2b28c2f6d , < 946bb6cacf0ccada7bc80f1cfa07c1ed79511c1c (git)
Affected: 6ac890f1d60ac3707ee8dae15a67d9a833e49956 , < 4172a7901cf43fe1cc63ef7a2ef33735ff7b7d13 (git)
Affected: 95597d11dc8bddb2b9a051c9232000bfbb5e43ba , < 9b49c854f14f5e2d493e562a1e28d2e57fe37371 (git)
Affected: 950803f7254721c1c15858fbbfae3deaaeeecb11 , < b7405dcf7385445e10821777143f18c3ce20fa04 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18.19 , < 6.18.20 (semver)
Affected: 6.19.9 , < 6.19.10 (semver)
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