# 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-2026-74473"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:09.382Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:47.966Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74473"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74473.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74473"
title: "vxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() in route_shortcircuit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: use pskb_network_may_pull() in route_shortcircuit()\n\nroute_shortcircuit() currently calls pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr))\n(or ipv6hdr), which checks if bytes are available starting from skb-\u003edata.\n\nHowever, in vxlan_xmit(), skb-\u003edata points to the MAC header, so\nskb_network_offset(skb) is ETH_HLEN (14 bytes). Using pskb_may_pull(skb, 20)\nonly checks 20 bytes from skb-\u003edata (which is 14 bytes MAC header + 6 bytes of\nIP header), leaving the rest of the IP header potentially un-pulled in non-linear\nfrags. Subsequent dereferences of ip_hdr(skb)-\u003edaddr can read beyond the pulled\nlinear buffer length.\n\nFix this by using pskb_network_may_pull(), which adds skb_network_offset(skb) to\nthe length check to ensure the full network header is present in the linear buffer."
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