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CVE-2026-63829

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that lives in t->net. Add rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in net/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is skipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already checked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper. Gate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live tunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t->collect_md before ip_tunnel_changelink() runs. Commit 8b484efd5cb4 ("ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_siocdevprivate().") added the same check on the ioctl path. This adds it on RTM_NEWLINK.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgit19275943d8fe903eb7b9aa53e380e41efd042adaUnavailableNone listed
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgit866b0f5ae599490bd496fd84581c68ac8b94e6afUnavailableNone listed
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgit92b766fc55156e0da2ecd0c2302c971118f8a229UnavailableNone listed
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgite54c05ed3d9c28733fb9e5837219aca3691defa3UnavailableNone listed
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgit9831bc9ecb402957810c2045c663fbfe9b09e296UnavailableNone listed
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgit1697957eb0971d420dde42862b88eb43506a1105UnavailableNone listed
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgit47b5d3d506609b08b2e1f7c14f0b681a1953d572UnavailableNone listed
b57708add31494175be741ed3fd24023b50c3423affectedgit8165f7ff57d9667d2bb477ef6af83ede7fed4ad7UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
3.16affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver3.16UnavailableNone listed
5.10.261unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.212unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.178unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.145unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.95unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.38unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.1.3unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.1.*None listed
7.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed