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CVE-2026-97614

Linux: net: dsa: tag_brcm: legacy FCS: request needed tailroom

Linux LinuxOperating systems
CVSS
NoneNot scored
ExploitationNo known exploitationNot in CISA KEV, which does not prove it is unexploitedCISA KEV
Exploit odds (EPSS)0.20%Chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of CVEs. Scored 23 Oct 2026FIRST EPSS
Fixed in709451db123d90743fa9104b48f324a8e49f8c6fAlso 3eb5c7e1c154c74568620a25c6751bb8d6d8d728, 5be081b83abd3f17d908953b4bb77279f5a149e3CVE List
Published25 Sep 2026Updated 19 Oct 2026CVE List

What fixes it

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Description

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

net: dsa: tag_brcm: legacy FCS: request needed tailroom

The legacy FCS tagger calculates the CRC over skb->len bytes starting at skb->data. When a nonlinear skb reaches the tagger, this reads past the linear head into unrelated slab memory.

The tagger appends an Ethernet FCS but does not declare that tailroom. As a result, DSA leaves NETIF_F_SG and NETIF_F_FRAGLIST enabled on the user port, and nonlinear skbs can reach the CRC calculation.

Declare the required tailroom. DSA will then clear those features and the networking core will linearize skbs before the tagger runs.

A KASAN-enabled dsa_loop test using this tagger reports:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880397086c0 by task exp/135

Call Trace: crc32_le (lib/crc/crc32-main.c:38) brcm_leg_fcs_tag_xmit (net/dsa/tag_brcm.c:343) dsa_user_xmit (net/dsa/user.c:942) dev_hard_start_xmit (net/core/dev.c:3937) __dev_queue_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4926) packet_sendmsg (net/packet/af_packet.c:3110) __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2281)

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888039708400 which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 704-byte region [ffff888039708400, ffff8880397086c0)

Text from CVE List

Affected versions 8

  • Linuxaffected: ef07df397a621707903ef0d294a7df11f80cf206 before 709451db123d90743fa9104b48f324a8e49f8c6fCVE List
  • Linuxaffected: ef07df397a621707903ef0d294a7df11f80cf206 before 3eb5c7e1c154c74568620a25c6751bb8d6d8d728CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: ef07df397a621707903ef0d294a7df11f80cf206 before 5be081b83abd3f17d908953b4bb77279f5a149e3CVE List
  • Linuxaffected: 6.17CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: all versions before 6.17CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 6.18.53 through 6.18.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.2.7 through 7.2.*CVE List
  • Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List

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