# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72444"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:55.229Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:24.524Z"
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-2026-72444"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72444.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72444"
title: "flow_dissector: check device type before reading ETH_ADDRS"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nflow_dissector: check device type before reading ETH_ADDRS\n\n__skb_flow_dissect() unconditionally reads 12 bytes from eth_hdr(skb)\nwhen FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_ETH_ADDRS is requested. This assumes the skb\nhas a valid Ethernet header at mac_header, which is not always the case.\n\nThe problem can be triggered by:\n 1. Creating a TUN device in L3 mode (IFF_TUN, hard_header_len=0)\n 2. Attaching a multiq qdisc with a flower filter matching on eth_src\n 3. Sending a packet through AF_PACKET\n\nSince TUN in L3 mode has no link-layer header, mac_header points to\nthe L3 data area. The flow dissector reads 12 bytes of uninitialized\nskb memory, which then propagates through fl_set_masked_key() and is\nused as a rhashtable lookup key in __fl_lookup(), as reported by KMSAN.\n\nRejecting the filter in the control path (at tc filter add time) is\nnot feasible because TC filter blocks can be shared between arbitrary\ndevices -- a filter installed on an Ethernet device may later classify\npackets on a headerless device through a shared block. The device\nassociation is not fixed at filter creation time.\n\nFix this by gating the memcpy on dev-\u003etype == ARPHRD_ETHER, which\nensures only true Ethernet-framed packets have their addresses read.\nThis is more precise than the previous hard_header_len \u003e= 12 check,\nwhich would incorrectly pass for non-Ethernet link types like IPoIB\n(ARPHRD_INFINIBAND, hard_header_len=24) and FDDI (hard_header_len=21)\nwhose L2 headers are not in Ethernet format. Additionally check\nskb_mac_header_was_set() to guard against the pathological case where\nmac_header is the unset sentinel (~0U), which would cause eth_hdr() to\nreturn a wild pointer.\n\nFor the act_mirred redirect case (Ethernet packet redirected to a\nnon-Ethernet device sharing a TC block), zeroing the key is the correct\nbehavior: the packet is now being classified on the target device, where\nEthernet address matching is not semantically meaningful.\n\nNote: on non-Ethernet devices, the zeroed key will match a filter\nconfigured with all-zero MAC addresses. This is an improvement over the\nprevious behavior where uninitialized memory could randomly match any\nfilter."
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