CVE-2026-52940

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52940
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52940.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-52940
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-06-24T07:14:29.281Z
Modified
2026-07-10T03:54:51.273423393Z
Summary
tun: zero the whole vnet header in tun_put_user()
Details

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

tun: zero the whole vnet header in tunputuser()

tunputuser() declares an on-stack struct virtionethdrv1hashtunnel without zeroing it. For a non-tunnel skb, virtionethdrtnlfromskb() only initializes the first 10 bytes (sizeof(struct virtionethdr)), 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 _tunvnethdrput() 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 tungetuser() already does by zeroing the whole header right after declaration.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/52xxx/CVE-2026-52940.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
288f30435132d2f9e7a29ec9b9745a4f9dc7fd37
Fixed
5fd1fa5a4254bfdd70571c77f5e3bcb4e43738d5
Fixed
585cb85e9a29185be05f326369573c2663cf4380
Fixed
7f2fcff15e99bb852f6967396ed12b38376e2c8d

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52940.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.17.0
Fixed
6.18.36
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.0.13

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52940.json"