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GHSA-J6PC-6Q9Q-VR74

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-03 18:31 – Updated: 2026-07-24 15:32

Details

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

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 15:15 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:21

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

Linux mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9532d0d0ad1d726c0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/946bb6cacf0ccada7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4172a7901cf43fe1c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b49c854f14f5e2d4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7405dcf7385445e1…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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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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