# 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-2026-72296"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:17.250Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:15.361Z"
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-2026-72296"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72296.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72296"
title: "net: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ife: require ETH_HLEN to be pullable in ife_decode()\n\nife decode may return after making only the outer IFE header and\nmetadata pullable. The caller then passes the decapsulated packet to\neth_type_trans(), which expects the inner Ethernet header to be\naccessible from the linear data area.\n\nWith a malformed IFE frame, the inner Ethernet header may still be\nshorter than ETH_HLEN in the linear area, which can lead to a crash in\nthe original code.\n\nFix this by extending the pull check in ife_decode() so that the inner\nEthernet header is also guaranteed to be pullable before returning."
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