CVE-2026-52940

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tun: zero the whole vnet header in tun_put_user()

tun_put_user() declares an on-stack struct virtio_net_hdr_v1_hash_tunnel without zeroing it. For a non-tunnel skb, virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() only initializes the first 10 bytes (sizeof(struct virtio_net_hdr)), leaving bytes 10..23 (num_buffers and the hash/tunnel fields) as stack garbage.

An unprivileged user can set the vnet header size to 24 with TUNSETVNETHDRSZ, so __tun_vnet_hdr_put() copies all 24 bytes of the partially-initialized struct to userspace, leaking 14 bytes of kernel stack on every read of a non-tunnel packet.

Fix it the same way tun_get_user() already does by zeroing the whole header right after declaration.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fd1fa5a4254bfdd70571c77f5e3bcb4e43738d5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/585cb85e9a29185be05f326369573c2663cf4380
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f2fcff15e99bb852f6967396ed12b38376e2c8d

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