CVE-2026-72051

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

net: ip6_tunnel: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink

ip6_tnl_changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the tunnel link netns t->net. They differ once the device is created in or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a caller privileged there but not in t->net can rewrite a tunnel that lives in t->net.

Gate ip6_tnl_changelink() on rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() at its top, before any attribute is parsed.

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KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
CentOS 7 ELS Planned
Debian 12 Planned
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned