Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2026
CVE-2026-98526
CVE-2026-98526
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
llc: reserve device headroom for allocated frames
llc_alloc_frame() reserves link-layer headroom using the device type. This is insufficient for stacked Ethernet devices such as VLAN devices, where vlan_dev_hard_header() pushes a VLAN header before the lower device's Ethernet header. An LLC response on such a device can therefore underflow skb headroom in eth_header().
Use LL_RESERVED_SPACE() to account for the device's actual required headroom while preserving the existing LLC device-type check.
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/018020f5a48cc86fdd6dc2d380f6c70443ae7639nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ceac2daa89dd16917bc488ab05b9dd6961a603nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1937222c2511ac91377d39f28106c34734f5f8c6nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3361c93e417384ebf28003e0fb6d5304653d3b05nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a3f57c4061d9e9cc3bc04205d36ce41ae3406c1nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/72b5b9a28b996e09b8b5b944370c79851bb68f52nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c38524b2b2456bd33cb360420da6cbf9cad1b33nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e06f8b6e27cc616d3c587e9784c4a033eb310a16nvd
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