# 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-2026-74701"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:33:01.585Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:16:10.294Z"
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-2026-74701"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74701.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74701"
title: "net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()\n\nWhen a packet arrives on an ARPHRD_NONE device (e.g. TUN),\novs_flow_key_extract() trusts the user-provided skb-\u003eprotocol field: if\nit is ETH_P_TEB, the packet is classified as MAC_PROTO_ETHERNET and\nkey_extract() is called without ensuring the skb has ETH_HLEN (14) bytes\nof linear data. key_extract() unconditionally pulls 2 * ETH_ALEN bytes\nfor MAC addresses and parse_ethertype() pulls 2 more, either of which\ntriggers a kernel BUG in __skb_pull() when the linear area is too small.\n\n  kernel BUG at include/linux/skbuff.h:2848!\n  RIP: 0010:key_extract+0xa7e/0xd90 net/openvswitch/flow.c:933\n  ovs_flow_key_extract+0x419/0xa70\n  ovs_vport_receive+0x222/0x390\n  netdev_frame_hook+0x3e0/0x630\n  tun_get_user+0x2d0c/0x38e0\n\nFixed by calling check_header() in key_extract() before accessing the\nEthernet header."
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