CVE-2026-80615

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-80615

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dst_metadata: fix false-positive memcpy overflow in tun_dst_unclone

kmalloc_flex() in metadata_dst_alloc() sets __counted_by for the

structure to the options_len, which is then initialized to zero.

Later, we're initializing the structure by copying the tunnel info

together with the options, and this triggers a warning for a potential

memcpy overflow, since the compiler estimates that the options can't

fit into the structure, even though the memory for them is actually

allocated.

memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 104 byte write of buffer size 96

WARNING: CPU: X PID: Y at lib/string_helpers.c:1036 __fortify_report

skb_tunnel_info_unclone+0x179/0x190

geneve_xmit+0x7fe/0xe00

The issue is triggered when built with clang and source fortification.

Fix that by doing the copy in two stages: first - the main data with

the options_len, then the options. This way the correct length should

be known at the time of the copy.

It would be better if the options_len never changed after allocation,

but the allocation code is a little separate from the initialization

and it would be awkward and potentially dangerous to return a struct

with options_len set to a non-zero value from the metadata_dst_alloc().

Another option would be to use ip_tunnel_info_opts_set(), but it is

doing too many unnecessary operations for the use case here. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References