CVE-2026-22988

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
23/01/2026
Last modified:
23/01/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb-&gt;head<br /> <br /> arp_create() is the only dev_hard_header() caller<br /> making assumption about skb-&gt;head being unchanged.<br /> <br /> A recent commit broke this assumption.<br /> <br /> Initialize @arp pointer after dev_hard_header() call.

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