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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80925" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-09T16:19:44.748Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:09.219Z" 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-2026-80925" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80925.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80925" title: "vlan: fix skb_under_panic and races when toggling HW VLAN offload" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvlan: fix skb_under_panic and races when toggling HW VLAN offload\n\nToggling hardware VLAN TX offload (NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_TX or\nNETIF_F_HW_VLAN_STAG_TX) on a lower device invokes vlan_transfer_features(),\nwhich dynamically changed vlandev-\u003ehard_header_len.\n\nThis causes two issues:\n1. Lockless TX paths (e.g. packet_snd in af_packet.c, ip6_finish_output2)\n read dev-\u003ehard_header_len without holding RTNL lock. Mutating\n hard_header_len dynamically under RTNL creates a data race where upper\n layers reserve insufficient headroom based on a stale hard_header_len,\n resulting in skb_under_panic when vlan_dev_hard_header() is called.\n2. In addition, vlan_transfer_features() updated hard_header_len without\n updating header_ops, causing a mismatch between allocated headroom\n and header creation.\n\nAlways setting dev-\u003ehard_header_len = real_dev-\u003ehard_header_len and\ndev-\u003eneeded_headroom = real_dev-\u003eneeded_headroom + VLAN_HLEN unconditionally\nensures:\n- dev-\u003ehard_header_len remains 100% static and immutable at real_dev-\u003ehard_header_len,\n eliminating all dynamic runtime updates and data races on hard_header_len.\n- Upper layers allocating skbs via LL_RESERVED_SPACE() will always reserve\n sufficient headroom for software VLAN tag insertion (real_dev-\u003ehard_header_len +\n real_dev-\u003eneeded_headroom + VLAN_HLEN).\n- vlandev inherits real_dev-\u003eneeded_tailroom so underlying trailer/padding/ICV\n requirements are honored.\n- AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW network header offsets remain correctly aligned at\n real_dev-\u003ehard_header_len.\n- vlan_header_ops is used unconditionally.\n\nNote to stable teams: Make sure to backport these commits:\n\ne16e960d55a4 (\"ipvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from phy_dev\")\ncef51860becd (\"macvlan: inherit needed_headroom and needed_tailroom from lowerdev\")" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b38d7a4bc9c17e1d437696da25f9fbc286614d9d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b30fe4de285b9bdaf9508740191f69f7cd83b8fa"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1517d1996b5236fe69eccd9d253f725e06996eb1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a29f3b884ba50217e6f50414f568073221e2bb07"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"447cbe95ebb95392b5d8f6a01c0556826919ce23"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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