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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90083" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:00.185Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:42.659Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-90083" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90083.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90083" title: "net/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames\n\nact_ife encapsulates/decapsulates the original Ethernet header and uses\nskb-\u003edev-\u003ehard_header_len as the length of that header. That is only\ncorrect for Ethernet devices: on a device where hard_header_len does not\nmatch the L2 header that was actually pulled (PPP reports PPP_HDRLEN\nwhile nothing is stripped on ingress), the ingress skb_push()/skb_pull()\nuse the wrong length and can hit skb_under_panic when headroom is tight.\n\nIFE is Ethernet-only by design - it builds an outer ethhdr, rewrites\nh_source/h_dest/h_proto, and calls eth_type_trans() on decode - so\ninstead of trying to make the offsets work for arbitrary link types,\nsimply drop packets that do not carry an Ethernet header.\n\nChecking skb-\u003edev-\u003etype alone is not enough. We have to cater for a\ncorner case where mirred can redirect an skb from a non-Ethernet device\nto an Ethernet one, and skb-\u003edev then says nothing about the framing the\nskb actually has: an skb redirected from ppp0 reaches the target's ingress\nhook with mac_len 0 and no Ethernet header at all. So at ingress also\nrequire mac_len to be ETH_HLEN. On egress mac_len is not maintained, so\nthe device type is all we have; a bogus redirect there yields a malformed\nframe rather than an out-of-bounds push, and it would be malformed with or\nwithout IFE.\n\nThat corner case is not theoretical - redirecting from ppp0 into a veth\nthat has an ife encode action on its ingress hook panics without this\npatch:\n\n skbuff: skb_under_panic: len:98 put:14 head:ffff88800e410000\n data:ffff88800e40fff5 tail:0x57 end:0x640 dev:veth3\n kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!\n Call Trace:\n skb_push (net/core/skbuff.c:224 net/core/skbuff.c:2657)\n tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:829 net/sched/act_ife.c:874)\n tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6463 net/core/dev.c:6522)\n tcf_mirred_to_dev (net/sched/act_mirred.c:248 net/sched/act_mirred.c:328)\n tcf_mirred_act (net/sched/act_mirred.c:489)\n tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6728)\n\nWith Ethernet framing guaranteed, use ETH_HLEN instead of\nhard_header_len." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b951dd2fd5ede007474fc134ecb5639e1f86f5de"},{"version":"295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13dddf87a1f89557920f9b437a21ea0b7225f828"},{"version":"295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d218ea7df6eba076171f2d4897a429a31f2139f0"},{"version":"295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"138b0054021fd7d57bc3eb68b3f4e2bcec037849"},{"version":"295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b483f7791b079bb97d411f1066652ff659207ff"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.11"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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