In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: geneve: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and the sticky underlay netns geneve->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 geneve->net can rewrite a geneve device whose underlay lives in geneve->net. geneve_changelink() applies the new configuration against geneve->net: geneve_link_config() and the geneve_quiesce()/geneve_unquiesce() pair reopen the underlay sockets in that netns (geneve_sock_add() uses geneve->net), so the same reasoning as the tunnel changelink series applies here. Gate geneve_changelink() with rtnl_dev_link_net_capable(), at the top of the op before any attribute is parsed, matching ipgre_changelink() and the rest of the "require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink" series. Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 3
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 20:58
- CwesCWE-862NVD modified 2026-10-19 21:17
- First seenCVSS 8.8NVD modified 2026-10-16 16:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11a7d989d00160481a273eb4f7f05f64b5a6ffdf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/278c6a31ee27c931c722202c8c06cc3253923254
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2abdacc927c92fa6a9cc8341e8c9b88dcb561553
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8efb8f8bbb353b8f2fdf4f37534c6d96c9f69e01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95f45e20f1b2cec13823f0f68060ab4b2261b2c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9de5518fc1fab583526a8f66b8e505c4864dc60a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5522963c57f12df5f9db804ebfc472b58eef0ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8c498585d2a08aa623748353c3e61467b7e9fd2