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CVE-2026-74747

ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.1.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access While the outer IP header is already pulled into the skb head, we must be careful and revalidate the embedded headers after reading them from the skb frags to prevent out-of-bounds access. One such place reported by Sashiko is ip_vs_nat_icmp() where local process can change the ihl field and after skb_ensure_writable() we can see larger value which is a problem for the ip_send_check(cih) calls. Add check to drop the packet if the ihl field is changed.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    2.6.12

  • KernelLinux

    From 2.6.12 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.114; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.57; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.1.10

References 6

git.kernel.org