CVE-2026-99041 (GCVE-0-2026-99041)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 12:22 – Updated: 2026-10-23 12:22
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Title
ip6_gre: remove obsolete ERSPAN PMTU update
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_gre: remove obsolete ERSPAN PMTU update A tc tunnel_key action can attach a METADATA_IP_TUNNEL dst to an skb, and mirred can redirect it to a native ip6erspan device. The legacy PMTU update in ip6erspan_tunnel_xmit() treats that metadata dst as a route. Since it has no output device, dst_dev(dst)->mtu dereferences NULL. On v7.2 with KASAN, an initial UID/GID 65534 process with CapEff 0 used self-created user and network namespaces to trigger: KASAN: null-ptr-deref RIP: ip6erspan_tunnel_xmit+0x10fc/0x2cc0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt The update is obsolete. Commit fe1a4ca0a2b7 ("ip6_gre: process toobig in a better way") changed IPv6 GRE Too Big handling to update the underlay route and removed the equivalent block from __gre6_xmit(). ip6_tnl_xmit() then propagates the underlay PMTU to the overlay route. Remove the stale ERSPAN copy and its now-unused dst variable. This eliminates the metadata-dst dereference and keeps ERSPAN aligned with IPv6 GRE PMTU handling.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5a963eb61b7c39e6c422b6e48619d19d04719358 , < b14a682ad7d45345701e08f9279d483a1da8b36c (git)
Affected: 5a963eb61b7c39e6c422b6e48619d19d04719358 , < f5b143f4cd3fb7673df8d727550478a4b762908a (git)
Affected: 5a963eb61b7c39e6c422b6e48619d19d04719358 , < 2d06cb25a497d3a7034ef9d172626c2d6620a0f1 (git)
Affected: 5a963eb61b7c39e6c422b6e48619d19d04719358 , < 8f27260b989f488760289276377db24fbfb20bfa (git)
Affected: 5a963eb61b7c39e6c422b6e48619d19d04719358 , < 8bc60db48e8cba35488bbd6e1f94aa990afa275a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.114 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.58 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.11 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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