CVE-2026-31700: net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/packet: fix TOCTOU race on mmap'd vnet_hdr in tpacket_snd() In tpacket_snd(), when PACKET_VNET_HDR is enabled, vnet_hdr points directly into the mmap'd TX ring buffer shared with userspace. The kernel validates the header via __packet_snd_vnet_parse() but then re-reads all fields later in virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(). A concurrent userspace thread can modify the vnet_hdr fields between validation and use, bypassing all safety checks. The non-TPACKET path (packet_snd()) already correctly copies vnet_hdr to a stack-local variable. All other vnet_hdr consumers in the kernel (tun.c, tap.c, virtio_net.c) also use stack copies. The TPACKET TX path is the only caller of virtio_net_hdr_to_skb() that reads directly from user-controlled shared memory. Fix this by copying vnet_hdr from the mmap'd ring buffer to a stack-local variable before validation and use, consistent with the approach used in packet_snd() and all other callers.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 74e2db36fe50e3ad9d5300d7fd0e6e2a15a6d121 (from 1d036d25e5609ba73fee6a88db01c306b140d512) · < 3a1bf9116ea31470b89692585c3910dfe830dcdd (from 1d036d25e5609ba73fee6a88db01c306b140d512) · < 28324a3b62d9ce7f9bdd65a8ce63f382041d1b27 (from 1d036d25e5609ba73fee6a88db01c306b140d512) · < 48a6ef291a17639e1b6ae0fbe9c8b2bb87d7804b (from 1d036d25e5609ba73fee6a88db01c306b140d512) · < 2c054e17d9d41f1020376806c7f750834ced4dc5 (from 1d036d25e5609ba73fee6a88db01c306b140d512)
- Linux / Linux4.6Fixed in 0, 6.6.136, 6.12.84, 6.18.25, 7.0.2, 7.1-rc1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H