CVE-2026-80615

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80615
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80615.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-80615
Downstream
Published
2026-08-28T06:48:36Z
Modified
2026-08-31T03:30:39Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
net: dst_metadata: fix false-positive memcpy overflow in tun_dst_unclone
Details

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

net: dst_metadata: fix false-positive memcpy overflow in tun_dst_unclone

kmalloc_flex() in metadata_dst_alloc() sets __counted_by for the structure to the options_len, which is then initialized to zero. Later, we're initializing the structure by copying the tunnel info together with the options, and this triggers a warning for a potential memcpy overflow, since the compiler estimates that the options can't fit into the structure, even though the memory for them is actually allocated.

memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 104 byte write of buffer size 96 WARNING: CPU: X PID: Y at lib/string_helpers.c:1036 __fortify_report skb_tunnel_info_unclone+0x179/0x190 geneve_xmit+0x7fe/0xe00

The issue is triggered when built with clang and source fortification.

Fix that by doing the copy in two stages: first - the main data with the options_len, then the options. This way the correct length should be known at the time of the copy.

It would be better if the options_len never changed after allocation, but the allocation code is a little separate from the initialization and it would be awkward and potentially dangerous to return a struct with options_len set to a non-zero value from the metadata_dst_alloc().

Another option would be to use ip_tunnel_info_opts_set(), but it is doing too many unnecessary operations for the use case here.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/80xxx/CVE-2026-80615.json"
}
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
69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f
Fixed
7ce31739fe88a558370135db95bbeec1e7ddfc29
Fixed
4c6d43db2a4d2cef3921e885cf34798f790d34ea

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80615.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.0.0
Fixed
7.1.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-80615.json"