THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-80615 (HIGH 8.2) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dst_metadata: fix false-positive memcpy overflow in tun_dst_unclone
kmalloc_flex() in metadata_dst_alloc() sets __counted_by for the
structure to the options_len, which is then initialized to zero.
Later,
[NVD] CVE-2026-80615 (HIGH 8.2) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dst_metadata: fix false-positive memcpy overflow in tun_dst_unclone kmalloc_flex() in metadata_dst_alloc() sets __counted_by for the structure to the options_len, which is then initialized to zero. Later,
CVE-2026-80615 CVSS: 8.2 HIGH Published: 2026-08-28T08:16:45.523
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dst_metadata: fix false-positive memcpy overflow in tun_dst_unclone
kmalloc_flex() in metadata_dst_alloc() sets __counted_by for the structure to the options_len, which is then initialized to zero. Later, we're initializing the structure by copying the tunnel
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-80615cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80615