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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80742" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-03T08:26:25.920Z" updatedAt: "2026-09-03T08:26:25.920Z" 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-2026-80742" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80742.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80742" title: "af_packet: Don't send zero-byte data in tpacket_snd()." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_packet: Don't send zero-byte data in tpacket_snd().\n\nsyzbot reported a WARNING in __dev_queue_xmit() triggered via tpacket_snd():\n\nskb_assert_len\nWARNING: at include/linux/skbuff.h:2753 skb_assert_len\nWARNING: at __dev_queue_xmit+0x21bc/0x4970 net/core/dev.c:4781\n\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3448 [inline]\n packet_xmit+0x243/0x310 net/packet/af_packet.c:276\n tpacket_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:2907 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x28d6/0x4eb0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3134\n\nWhen sending 0-byte packets via TPACKET ring buffer on devices with no\nhard header (e.g. dev-\u003ehard_header_len == 0), tpacket_fill_skb()\npopulates an skb with skb-\u003elen == 0 and returns 0. tpacket_snd() then\nforwards this empty skb to packet_xmit(), causing __dev_queue_xmit() to\nhit skb_assert_len(skb).\n\nSimilar checks exist in packet_snd() via commit dc633700f00f\n(\"net/af_packet: check len when min_header_len equals to 0\") and in\npacket_sendmsg_spkt() via commit 6a341729fb31 (\"af_packet: Don't send\nzero-byte data in packet_sendmsg_spkt().\").\n\nReturn -EINVAL in tpacket_fill_skb() when skb-\u003elen is zero to reject\nzero-length packets in tpacket_snd()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dde212f8622f5cb36223fff1ebd6e6f2a3dc61fe"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80a702964467b998d254f16cc61c2c9a20540c9d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7521e691c7c4f2231634c95053281ac888d1f452"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fc70b3d513bafb16b17540178870ef46e81c0bb"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3fa110f9e2ea96f567f2194c673c4bc327640111"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98c5914d6b7bd4b4675535908e57dea31f1efd6a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f09ac5682f1bb67981fcb6ead4d3cfe439225876"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bcd76c134c55c697148acb5c0194e9666abdf84"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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