CVE-2026-22988 Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.26.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-15434750
  • published6 Mar 2026
  • disclosed27 Feb 2026

Introduced: 27 Feb 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-docs-html to version 6.12.0-160000.26.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb->head

arp_create() is the only dev_hard_header() caller making assumption about skb->head being unchanged.

A recent commit broke this assumption.

Initialize @arp pointer after dev_hard_header() call.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1