# 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-2026-98568"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:34.562Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:53.865Z"
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-2026-98568"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98568.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98568"
title: "vxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies\n\nvxlan_na_create() samples LL_RESERVED_SPACE() to size the reply skb and then\nsamples it again to reserve headroom. A concurrent vxlan_changelink() can\nupdate needed_headroom between the two reads, creating a TOCTOU race. The\nsecond value can exceed the allocation and make the Ethernet header write out\nof bounds.\n\nThe race is reproducible on the unpatched kernel. It occurred when\nvxlan_na_create() generated a neighbour reply while vxlan_changelink() changed\nthe link headroom. KASAN caught a four-byte write two bytes beyond a 704-byte\nskbuff_small_head allocation.\n\nSnapshot the headroom once and use that value for both allocation and\nreservation."
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