# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-99041"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:00.403Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:22:00.403Z"
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-2026-99041"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99041.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99041"
title: "ip6_gre: remove obsolete ERSPAN PMTU update"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nip6_gre: remove obsolete ERSPAN PMTU update\n\nA tc tunnel_key action can attach a METADATA_IP_TUNNEL dst to an skb,\nand mirred can redirect it to a native ip6erspan device. The legacy PMTU\nupdate in ip6erspan_tunnel_xmit() treats that metadata dst as a route.\nSince it has no output device, dst_dev(dst)-\u003emtu dereferences NULL.\n\nOn v7.2 with KASAN, an initial UID/GID 65534 process with CapEff 0 used\nself-created user and network namespaces to trigger:\n\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref\n  RIP: ip6erspan_tunnel_xmit+0x10fc/0x2cc0\n  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt\n\nThe update is obsolete. Commit fe1a4ca0a2b7 (\"ip6_gre: process toobig\nin a better way\") changed IPv6 GRE Too Big handling to update the\nunderlay route and removed the equivalent block from __gre6_xmit().\nip6_tnl_xmit() then propagates the underlay PMTU to the overlay route.\n\nRemove the stale ERSPAN copy and its now-unused dst variable. This\neliminates the metadata-dst dereference and keeps ERSPAN aligned with\nIPv6 GRE PMTU handling."
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