Bug 2516243 (CVE-2026-72296) - CVE-2026-72296 kernel: net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode()
Summary: CVE-2026-72296 kernel: net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72296
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 11:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:02:18 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode()

ife decode may return after making only the outer IFE header and
metadata pullable. The caller then passes the decapsulated packet to
eth_type_trans(), which expects the inner Ethernet header to be
accessible from the linear data area.

With a malformed IFE frame, the inner Ethernet header may still be
shorter than ETH_HLEN in the linear area, which can lead to a crash in
the original code.

Fix this by extending the pull check in ife_decode() so that the inner
Ethernet header is also guaranteed to be pullable before returning.


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