# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63829"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:02:23.191Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:49.035Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-63829"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63829.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63829"
title: "net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink\n\nA tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and\nthe tunnel link netns t-\u003enet. They differ once the device is created in\nor moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl\nchangelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a\ncaller privileged there but not in t-\u003enet can rewrite a tunnel that\nlives in t-\u003enet.\n\nAdd rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in\nnet/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is\nskipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already\nchecked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper.\n\nGate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of\nthe op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live\ntunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t-\u003ecollect_md before\nip_tunnel_changelink() runs.\n\nCommit 8b484efd5cb4 (\"ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in\nvti6_siocdevprivate().\") added the same check on the ioctl path. This\nadds it on RTM_NEWLINK."
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