CVE-2026-99066
N/AIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: dev: init_can_skb(): restore skb header initialization Commit 9f10374bb024 ("can: remove private CAN skb headroom infrastructure") removed the skb_reset_mac_header()/skb_reset_network_header()/ skb_reset_transport_header() calls from init_can_skb(). As a result, RX skbs from alloc_can_skb() and friends again carry mac_header = 0xFFFF. When such an skb reaches packet_rcv_spkt() (SOCK_PACKET), the push length calculation overflows and triggers skb_under_panic -> kernel BUG -> full machine panic. The same issue was originally reported in 2014 on linux-can and fixed by commit 969439016d2c ("can: add missing initialisations in CAN related skbuffs"). packet_rcv_spkt() itself has never been hardened: only packet_rcv() and tpacket_rcv() gained dev_has_header() checks in commit d549699048b4 ("net/packet: fix packet receive on L3 devices without visible hard header").
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Advisories
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-108732 EUVD · EUVD-2026-108732
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8078375dfd0baecd9f1b7b06bb2d6f88d7cb8632CVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-23T12:23:09.516Z
NVD · CVE-2026-99066 · Updated 2026-10-23T13:17:30.477 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a04c0cb8606ff88399489d03ef255afe90d0d5fCVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-23T12:23:09.516Z
NVD · CVE-2026-99066 · Updated 2026-10-23T13:17:30.477