ipv6: do not let ipv6_find_hdr() return an offset past the packet end (Linux Linux)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.61 % · percentile 49 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Linux
- NVD status
- Received
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: do not let ipv6_find_hdr() return an offset past the packet end ipv6_find_hdr() walks the extension header chain, skipping each header by the length that header itself declares. ipv6_optlen() returns up to 2048, and the skip is never checked against skb->len, so the offset stored in *offset can point past the end of the packet. openvswitch installs that offset as the transport header, and update_ipv6_checksum() then reads and writes the transport checksum field out of bounds: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88810b754b06 by task ovs_ipv6_oob/629 CPU: 4 UID: 1000 PID: 629 Comm: ovs_ipv6_oob Tainted: G N 7.3.0-rc3+ #348 Call Trace: inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470 set_ipv6_addr+0x3dd/0x460 do_execute_actions+0x6a3d/0x7c40 ovs_execute_actions+0xfd/0x480 ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xc38/0xf20 genl_rcv_msg+0x59e/0x870 netlink_rcv_skb+0x18b/0x450 genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x6bc/0xa20 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810b754980 which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704 The buggy address is located 390 bytes inside of freed 704-byte region [ffff88810b754980, ffff88810b754c40) Other callers use that offset too, so bound it here rather than in one caller. Reject a header whose declared length does not fit in the packet. ipv6_find_hdr() already fails with -EBADMSG on a malformed chain, so this adds no new failure mode.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4254d5878c320c19961dd0b8e1d0aca4800d8b7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee319bd3a0e976af5087cbe59ebc50a66f31d202
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-103577
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-98532
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1375 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7 ; affected f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71 ; affected f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c ; affected f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5 ; affected f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb ; affected f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0 |
| Linux · Linux | affected 3.8 ; unaffected 0 < 3.8 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.* |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |