CVE-2026-74684 (GCVE-0-2026-74684)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-25 05:41
VLAI
Title
net: tap: set skb->dev before parsing virtio net header in tap_get_user_xdp()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tap: set skb->dev before parsing virtio net header in tap_get_user_xdp() The commit 4f61f133f354 ("net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null") fixed a crash in tap_get_user() by assigning skb->dev before calling tun_vnet_hdr_to_skb(). This is required because virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() may invoke dev_parse_header_protocol(), which dereferences skb->dev. Without the assignment, a NULL pointer dereference can occur. However, tap_get_user_xdp() still parses the virtio-net header before assigning skb->dev. When the vhost TX path passes an XDP buffer containing a GSO virtio-net header but the protocol is set to zero on purpose, tun_vnet_hdr_to_skb() can reach dev_parse_header_protocol() while skb->dev is still NULL, resulting in a crash. Fix this by looking up the tap device and assigning skb->dev before calling tun_vnet_hdr_to_skb(), matching the ordering already used in tap_get_user(). Preserve the existing RCU read-side critical section across dev_queue_xmit().
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 924a9bc362a5223cd448ca08c3dde21235adc310 , < 15583b07fd691a844fbf7b3ad612cdc9e9a657c0 (git)
Affected: 924a9bc362a5223cd448ca08c3dde21235adc310 , < 8b444b126cd8e4473e652f529753ed4dd1360a9c (git)
Affected: 924a9bc362a5223cd448ca08c3dde21235adc310 , < 164c31ee252ebd1ac8f44c2dfc5486b6d9a0379b (git)
Affected: 924a9bc362a5223cd448ca08c3dde21235adc310 , < 3874892dd27d5387aa9a06f58d9060f18f351d24 (git)
Affected: ea3fb2ce5fa794d02135f5c079e05cd6fc3f545d (git)
Affected: 54ef8243c3c8e90f1ea5792e6752e021a25c8eb3 (git)
Affected: ca278267d6cd9544645731732455b6b20cb0e895 (git)
Affected: faa3baa2828c5e1c4374f3e60041f75c64f5fcb6 (git)
Affected: 99b1d3f74b9ef72c2f74c8e4c078e1bc0706e748 (git)
Affected: 4.14.226 , < 4.15 (semver)
Affected: 4.19.181 , < 4.20 (semver)
Affected: 5.4.106 , < 5.5 (semver)
Affected: 5.10.24 , < 5.11 (semver)
Affected: 5.11.7 , < 5.12 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.105 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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