# 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-2026-98554"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:21.751Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:37.221Z"
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-2026-98554"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98554.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98554"
title: "vlan: ensure sufficient headroom in vlan_dev_hard_header()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvlan: ensure sufficient headroom in vlan_dev_hard_header()\n\nCallers that only reserve ETH_HLEN or less (such as llc_alloc_frame()),\nor skbs allocated before dynamic device/headroom changes (e.g. toggling\nVLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR or bonding/team switching slaves), can reach\nvlan_dev_hard_header() with insufficient headroom and trigger\nskb_under_panic().\n\nUse skb_cow_head() in vlan_dev_hard_header() when VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR\nis not set to ensure sufficient headroom for the VLAN header(s) and the\nunderlying device hard header.\n\nUse READ_ONCE() to read dev-\u003ehard_header_len and dev-\u003eneeded_headroom as\nthey can be updated concurrently under RTNL (e.g. in\nvlan_transfer_features()) while vlan_dev_hard_header() runs locklessly on\nthe transmit path. Also avoid LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) here so that the\nextra HH_DATA_MOD alignment padding does not trigger unnecessary\npskb_expand_head() reallocations on inner stacked VLAN devices after the\nouter VLAN header has been pushed."
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