# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72061"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:15.823Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:19:25.695Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72061"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72061.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72061"
title: "net: sit: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: sit: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink\n\nipip6_changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the\ntunnel link netns t-\u003enet. They differ once the device is created in or\nmoved 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\nGate ipip6_changelink() on rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() at its top,\nbefore any attribute is parsed. sit was the one tunnel type not covered\nby the recent series that added this check to the other changelink()\nhandlers."
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