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CVE-2026-98495

net: arp: terminate device name before lookup

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: arp: terminate device name before lookup The ARP ioctl copies a user-provided struct arpreq into a stack object. Its arp_dev field may contain IFNAMSIZ bytes without a NUL terminator. Such input is passed to dev_get_by_name_rcu() or __dev_get_by_name(), where strcmp() can read past the end of the stack object when a matching alternative interface name exists. Terminate the field before the lookup to prevent the out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < ae6d704dbf9542b0a0830ec91a2db4f30307e7d8affected
  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < 47107491b48ceef0a2faa7a010cfa961f211ef9faffected
  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < 7389757d88f54237951d7497d9c4dae7cc6d64beaffected
  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < 1b08c5c3ac27c9ff91c5309f4a32b4e91ce2263baffected
  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < 414bbad9928598904313299ac9e037a73f520be1affected
  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < ba664d83638640cf454b65167339cbf20dfd6f10affected
  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < 35e716a70733472ede300540082d64c33bf3b4c9affected
  • 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to < d8b6529e80bcb4fb8177121404cbb3377acaebd2affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.5affected
  • 0 to < 5.5unaffected
  • 5.10.271 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.222 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.189 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.158 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.112 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.55 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.9 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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