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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71128"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-14T15:07:44.941Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:15:15.302Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71128"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71128.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71128"
title: "erspan: Initialize options_len before referencing options."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nerspan: Initialize options_len before referencing options.\n\nThe struct ip_tunnel_info has a flexible array member named\noptions that is protected by a counted_by(options_len)\nattribute.\n\nThe compiler will use this information to enforce runtime bounds\nchecking deployed by FORTIFY_SOURCE string helpers.\n\nAs laid out in the GCC documentation, the counter must be\ninitialized before the first reference to the flexible array\nmember.\n\nAfter scanning through the files that use struct ip_tunnel_info\nand also refer to options or options_len, it appears the normal\ncase is to use the ip_tunnel_info_opts_set() helper.\n\nSaid helper would initialize options_len properly before copying\ndata into options, however in the GRE ERSPAN code a partial\nupdate is done, preventing the use of the helper function.\n\nBefore this change the handling of ERSPAN traffic in GRE tunnels\nwould cause a kernel panic when the kernel is compiled with\nGCC 15+ and having FORTIFY_SOURCE configured:\n\nmemcpy: detected buffer overflow: 4 byte write of buffer size 0\n\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n __fortify_panic+0xd/0xf\n erspan_rcv.cold+0x68/0x83\n ? ip_route_input_slow+0x816/0x9d0\n gre_rcv+0x1b2/0x1c0\n gre_rcv+0x8e/0x100\n ? raw_v4_input+0x2a0/0x2b0\n ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x1ea/0x210\n ip_local_deliver_finish+0x86/0x110\n ip_local_deliver+0x65/0x110\n ? ip_rcv_finish_core+0xd6/0x360\n ip_rcv+0x186/0x1a0\n\nReported-at: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2129580"
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