netfilter: ip6tables: mark malformed IPv6 extension headers for hotdrop (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72348
CRITICAL 9.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.63 % · percentile 50 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ip6tables: mark malformed IPv6 extension headers for hotdrop The ah, hbh and rt matches check that the fixed extension header is present, then use the header length field to derive the advertised extension header length for matching. For the ah match, add the missing advertised-length check. For hbh and rt, update the existing advertised-length checks. In all three cases, set hotdrop to true before returning false when the advertised extension header length exceeds the available skb data. Returning false treats the packet as a rule mismatch. Set hotdrop to true and drop malformed packets so they cannot bypass rules intended to drop packets with these IPv6 extension headers.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < f16d856b6af5fd0e7cb0b0212f70825b599ef72e ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < fc416870100cf16d5b9495199355a679c3a02d48 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < f775fcf384b06f35b612f78fa5601fee99eb6513 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 2fd89a50a9783eed8ed23866b11c8b3d8779a7a8 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 3578b6d92a5b1e603ae6e8c8f5538a709f03aba4 ; affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 3d441be2b1c5e98167302fa1c7b61960a067b112
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.12 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.12 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD