CVE-2026-80681

CRITICAL

Description

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

vxlan: re-fetch eth header after route_shortcircuit()

Before route_shortcircuit(), the eth header pointer is cached from eth_hdr(skb).

Inside route_shortcircuit(), pskb_may_pull() can be called, which may
reallocate skb->head.

In this case, returning to vxlan_xmit() leaves the cached eth pointer pointing to
freed memory, leading to a use-after-free when dereferencing eth->h_dest.

Fix this by updating eth = eth_hdr(skb) after calling route_shortcircuit().

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected routers (0)

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External references

• NIST NVD
• MITRE CVE