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CVE-2026-72052

net: ip6_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ip6_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink ip6gre_changelink() and ip6erspan_changelink() operate 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 both ops on rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() at their top, before any attribute is parsed.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before 129f8939e5af683cec3a1a5edcb40a64636ad81e; affected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before e3724dedf57761c6de52f4d604ec74f66fd61611; affected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before 220162c9fedbe992da70d70f50a10da4f45f914c; affected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before 1d4d8ee002083ca4ead5353662bf8362428af57f; affected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before 0caa9f348f8b5356900de77b0bb89a697c4aff20; affected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before 03d8843b143ebbbfaf48511922abc6e886575a61; affected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before c38c8b0db3c65b597e7ece317b6cb59de3d15e69; affected 690afc165bb314354667f67157c1a1aea7dc797a before f00a50876d2818bd6dc86fa98b3ef360884c53c8; affected d0201d2405dac8d9b16773e97709925e397552d0; affected 7943bb0f06365cf5e32f3cf8a6b29eeae981fb8a; affected 4.19.100 before 4.20; affected 5.4.16 before 5.5
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.5; unaffected 0 before 5.5; unaffected 5.10.261 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.212 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.178 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.145 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.97 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.40 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.5 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

CWE

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