{"api_version":"1","generated_at":"2026-09-19T04:28:00+00:00","cve":"CVE-2026-90083","urls":{"html":"https://cve.report/CVE-2026-90083","api":"https://cve.report/api/cve/CVE-2026-90083.json","docs":"https://cve.report/api","cve_org":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90083","nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-90083"},"summary":{"title":"net/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames\n\nact_ife encapsulates/decapsulates the original Ethernet header and uses\nskb->dev->hard_header_len as the length of that header. That is only\ncorrect for Ethernet devices: on a device where hard_header_len does not\nmatch the L2 header that was actually pulled (PPP reports PPP_HDRLEN\nwhile nothing is stripped on ingress), the ingress skb_push()/skb_pull()\nuse the wrong length and can hit skb_under_panic when headroom is tight.\n\nIFE is Ethernet-only by design - it builds an outer ethhdr, rewrites\nh_source/h_dest/h_proto, and calls eth_type_trans() on decode - so\ninstead of trying to make the offsets work for arbitrary link types,\nsimply drop packets that do not carry an Ethernet header.\n\nChecking skb->dev->type alone is not enough. We have to cater for a\ncorner case where mirred can redirect an skb from a non-Ethernet device\nto an Ethernet one, and skb->dev then says nothing about the framing the\nskb actually has: an skb redirected from ppp0 reaches the target's ingress\nhook with mac_len 0 and no Ethernet header at all. So at ingress also\nrequire mac_len to be ETH_HLEN. On egress mac_len is not maintained, so\nthe device type is all we have; a bogus redirect there yields a malformed\nframe rather than an out-of-bounds push, and it would be malformed with or\nwithout IFE.\n\nThat corner case is not theoretical - redirecting from ppp0 into a veth\nthat has an ife encode action on its ingress hook panics without this\npatch:\n\n  skbuff: skb_under_panic: len:98 put:14 head:ffff88800e410000\n          data:ffff88800e40fff5 tail:0x57 end:0x640 dev:veth3\n  kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!\n  Call Trace:\n   skb_push (net/core/skbuff.c:224 net/core/skbuff.c:2657)\n   tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:829 net/sched/act_ife.c:874)\n   tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n   netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6463 net/core/dev.c:6522)\n   tcf_mirred_to_dev (net/sched/act_mirred.c:248 net/sched/act_mirred.c:328)\n   tcf_mirred_act (net/sched/act_mirred.c:489)\n   tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n   process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6728)\n\nWith Ethernet framing 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the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames\n\nact_ife encapsulates/decapsulates the original Ethernet header and uses\nskb->dev->hard_header_len as the length of that header. That is only\ncorrect for Ethernet devices: on a device where hard_header_len does not\nmatch the L2 header that was actually pulled (PPP reports PPP_HDRLEN\nwhile nothing is stripped on ingress), the ingress skb_push()/skb_pull()\nuse the wrong length and can hit skb_under_panic when headroom is tight.\n\nIFE is Ethernet-only by design - it builds an outer ethhdr, rewrites\nh_source/h_dest/h_proto, and calls eth_type_trans() on decode - so\ninstead of trying to make the offsets work for arbitrary link types,\nsimply drop packets that do not carry an Ethernet header.\n\nChecking skb->dev->type alone is not enough. We have to cater for a\ncorner case where mirred can redirect an skb from a non-Ethernet device\nto an Ethernet one, and skb->dev then says nothing about the framing the\nskb actually has: an skb redirected from ppp0 reaches the target's ingress\nhook with mac_len 0 and no Ethernet header at all. So at ingress also\nrequire mac_len to be ETH_HLEN. On egress mac_len is not maintained, so\nthe device type is all we have; a bogus redirect there yields a malformed\nframe rather than an out-of-bounds push, and it would be malformed with or\nwithout IFE.\n\nThat corner case is not theoretical - redirecting from ppp0 into a veth\nthat has an ife encode action on its ingress hook panics without this\npatch:\n\n  skbuff: skb_under_panic: len:98 put:14 head:ffff88800e410000\n          data:ffff88800e40fff5 tail:0x57 end:0x640 dev:veth3\n  kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!\n  Call Trace:\n   skb_push (net/core/skbuff.c:224 net/core/skbuff.c:2657)\n   tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:829 net/sched/act_ife.c:874)\n   tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n   netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6463 net/core/dev.c:6522)\n   tcf_mirred_to_dev (net/sched/act_mirred.c:248 net/sched/act_mirred.c:328)\n   tcf_mirred_act (net/sched/act_mirred.c:489)\n   tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n   process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6728)\n\nWith Ethernet framing guaranteed, use ETH_HLEN instead of\nhard_header_len."}],"providerMetadata":{"dateUpdated":"2026-09-17T16:06:00.185Z","orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux"},"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d218ea7df6eba076171f2d4897a429a31f2139f0"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/138b0054021fd7d57bc3eb68b3f4e2bcec037849"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b483f7791b079bb97d411f1066652ff659207ff"}],"title":"net/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}},"cveMetadata":{"assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","assignerShortName":"Linux","cveId":"CVE-2026-90083","datePublished":"2026-09-17T16:06:00.185Z","dateReserved":"2026-09-11T19:38:34.785Z","dateUpdated":"2026-09-17T16:06:00.185Z","state":"PUBLISHED"},"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2"},"nvd":{"publishedDate":"2026-09-17 17:16:57","lastModifiedDate":"2026-09-17 17:16:57","problem_types":[],"metrics":[],"configurations":[]},"legacy_mitre":{"record":{"CveYear":"2026","CveId":"90083","Ordinal":"1","Title":"net/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames","CVE":"CVE-2026-90083","Year":"2026"},"notes":[{"CveYear":"2026","CveId":"90083","Ordinal":"1","NoteData":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames\n\nact_ife encapsulates/decapsulates the original Ethernet header and uses\nskb->dev->hard_header_len as the length of that header. That is only\ncorrect for Ethernet devices: on a device where hard_header_len does not\nmatch the L2 header that was actually pulled (PPP reports PPP_HDRLEN\nwhile nothing is stripped on ingress), the ingress skb_push()/skb_pull()\nuse the wrong length and can hit skb_under_panic when headroom is tight.\n\nIFE is Ethernet-only by design - it builds an outer ethhdr, rewrites\nh_source/h_dest/h_proto, and calls eth_type_trans() on decode - so\ninstead of trying to make the offsets work for arbitrary link types,\nsimply drop packets that do not carry an Ethernet header.\n\nChecking skb->dev->type alone is not enough. We have to cater for a\ncorner case where mirred can redirect an skb from a non-Ethernet device\nto an Ethernet one, and skb->dev then says nothing about the framing the\nskb actually has: an skb redirected from ppp0 reaches the target's ingress\nhook with mac_len 0 and no Ethernet header at all. So at ingress also\nrequire mac_len to be ETH_HLEN. On egress mac_len is not maintained, so\nthe device type is all we have; a bogus redirect there yields a malformed\nframe rather than an out-of-bounds push, and it would be malformed with or\nwithout IFE.\n\nThat corner case is not theoretical - redirecting from ppp0 into a veth\nthat has an ife encode action on its ingress hook panics without this\npatch:\n\n  skbuff: skb_under_panic: len:98 put:14 head:ffff88800e410000\n          data:ffff88800e40fff5 tail:0x57 end:0x640 dev:veth3\n  kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!\n  Call Trace:\n   skb_push (net/core/skbuff.c:224 net/core/skbuff.c:2657)\n   tcf_ife_act (net/sched/act_ife.c:829 net/sched/act_ife.c:874)\n   tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n   netif_receive_skb (net/core/dev.c:6463 net/core/dev.c:6522)\n   tcf_mirred_to_dev (net/sched/act_mirred.c:248 net/sched/act_mirred.c:328)\n   tcf_mirred_act (net/sched/act_mirred.c:489)\n   tc_run (net/core/dev.c:4463)\n   process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6728)\n\nWith Ethernet framing guaranteed, use ETH_HLEN instead of\nhard_header_len.","Type":"Description","Title":"net/sched: act_ife: Only operate on Ethernet frames"}]}}}