ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation End.DX4 and End.DT4 decapsulate an IPv4 packet through decap_and_validate() and send it directly to IPv4 routing. The inner packet therefore bypasses ip_rcv_core(), which normally clears IPCB before IPv4 interprets skb->cb. The skb instead retains IP6CB data from the outer packet. IP6CB and IPCB use the same skb->cb storage, so IP6CB(skb)->lastopt overlaps IPCB(skb)->opt.optlen and srr, while IP6CB(skb)->nhoff overlaps rr and ts. The sender can make the stale optlen byte nonzero with a valid outer extension-header chain. The reproducers put an eight-byte Destination Options header immediately after the 40-byte IPv6 header and before the Segment Routing Header. ipv6_destopt_rcv() records the sender-controlled Destination Options offset in both lastopt and nhoff, setting them to 40. On the reproduced little-endian x86-64 kernel, IPv4 therefore sees optlen = 40 and rr = 40. Both tcp_v4_save_options() and __ip_options_echo() skip option copying when optlen is zero. Here optlen is 40, so the TCP SYN path allocates room for 40 bytes of option data and calls __ip_options_echo(). The stale rr value makes that function read inner packet byte 41 as the Record Route option length. The reproducers set that sender-controlled byte to 255, so __ip_options_echo() copies 255 bytes into the 40-byte option-data area. Separate End.DX4 and End.DT4 reproducers on the unpatched v7.2-rc5 kernel both produced: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __ip_options_echo() Write of size 255 The relevant End.DX4 call path is: __ip_options_echo tcp_v4_route_req tcp_conn_request tcp_v4_conn_request tcp_rcv_state_process tcp_v4_do_rcv tcp_v4_rcv ip_protocol_deliver_rcu ip_local_deliver_finish ip_local_deliver input_action_end_dx4_finish input_action_end_dx4 The relevant End.DT4 call path is: __ip_options_echo tcp_v4_route_req tcp_conn_request tcp_v4_conn_request tcp_rcv_state_process tcp_v4_do_rcv tcp_v4_rcv ip_protocol_deliver_rcu ip_local_deliver_finish ip_local_deliver input_action_end_dt4 tcp_v4_save_options() is inlined into the tcp_v4_route_req() path, so it does not appear as a separate frame. When decap_and_validate() handles IPPROTO_IPIP, save the ingress interface from IP6CB, clear IPCB, and restore the saved value. Doing this in the common decapsulation path covers End.DX4, End.DT4, and End.DT46's IPv4 arm. Use IP6CB(skb)->iif rather than skb->skb_iif. These actions run after l3mdev processing, which can replace skb_iif with the L3 master; IP6CB iif still records the receiving interface set at IPv6 ingress.

Timeline

1. Sep 4, 2026, 3:54 PM UTCCVE published
2. Oct 19, 2026, 8:44 AM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Linux Linux

  From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in 10fd1a8f58ac619a9e251f2858e2e2c8fd6cd667; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in eb0f422487228e140f3d609b032ac61aedcab8fa; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in 9039e4f3e1c0ffe2b575b655b3f58fdd10f7e40c; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in f52f1e75716d2ee49e013edf204ac92337c72fd8; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in 0e3f01fe2e704e76af4385b8a1742641885a191c; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in 3e4476e58343fb8f2fffced9e22d935376b17aaf; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in bf1c1151560d11036a144d917fa4c131831342d7; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in f4be3b391265e24c7720fc867c50062b436acf33; From 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 · fixed in 44930446dde45a7a90fe1446fa38eb0e2c561646

• Linux Linux

  4.14

• KernelLinux

  From 4.14.0 · fixed in 5.10.269; From 5.11.0 · fixed in 5.15.220; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.1.187; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.156; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.108; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.49; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.1.13; From 7.2.0 · fixed in 7.2.3

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