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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97965" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:07.952Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:54.233Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97965" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97965.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97965" title: "vxlan: initialize _md in vxlan_xmit_one()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: initialize _md in vxlan_xmit_one()\n\nIf a VXLAN device is configured with both VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA and\nVXLAN_F_GBP, and a packet is transmitted through it using an external\nip_tunnel_info that lacks the IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT flag, md is left\npointing to the uninitialized _md stack variable:\n\n if (test_bit(IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT, info-\u003ekey.tun_flags)) {\n if (info-\u003eoptions_len \u003c sizeof(*md))\n goto drop;\n md = ip_tunnel_info_opts(info);\n }\n\nBecause IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT is not set, md is not updated and remains\npointing to _md. Later, vxlan_build_skb() is called with md, which\neventually calls vxlan_build_gbp_hdr():\n\n if (vxflags & VXLAN_F_GBP)\n vxlan_build_gbp_hdr(vxh, md);\n\nInside vxlan_build_gbp_hdr(), md-\u003egbp is read:\n\n if (!md-\u003egbp)\n return;\n gbp = (struct vxlanhdr_gbp *)vxh;\n ...\n if (md-\u003egbp & VXLAN_GBP_DONT_LEARN)\n gbp-\u003edont_learn = 1;\n\nIf the stack contains garbage, this causes:\n1) VXLAN_HF_GBP flag to be spuriously set in the VXLAN header.\n2) gbp-\u003edont_learn and gbp-\u003epolicy_applied to be set from stack bits.\n3) gbp-\u003epolicy_id to receive 16 bits of uninitialized kernel stack data,\n leaking it onto the wire.\n\nFix this by zero-initializing _md. If IP_TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT_BIT is not\npresent, md-\u003egbp remains 0, and vxlan_build_gbp_hdr() returns early\nwithout modifying the VXLAN header." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ee122c79d4227f6ec642157834b6a90fcffa4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb78beb64e0e79557e4cd7cd17fea744bb6f01d9"},{"version":"ee122c79d4227f6ec642157834b6a90fcffa4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d13b5a413bffc8718b3821b78537ccc6596c233"},{"version":"ee122c79d4227f6ec642157834b6a90fcffa4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bfb74c48ac2d31476d5e09cf9658844508d2608a"},{"version":"ee122c79d4227f6ec642157834b6a90fcffa4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"081f22177d9d12b1e381b787f203cd5f47508187"},{"version":"ee122c79d4227f6ec642157834b6a90fcffa4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be83178bfc44588f6e3adb827ed874c683193466"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.3"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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