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CVE-2026-98532

ipv6: do not let ipv6_find_hdr() return an offset past the packet end

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Fix
Fixed in 5.10.271, 5.15.222, 6.1.189, 6.6.158, 6.12.112, and 2 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7; From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in 531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71; From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in 543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c; From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5; From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in 1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb; From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in 1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0; From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in 4254d5878c320c19961dd0b8e1d0aca4800d8b7d; From f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b · fixed in ee319bd3a0e976af5087cbe59ebc50a66f31d202

  • Linux Linux

    3.8

  • KernelLinux

    From 3.8.0 · fixed in 5.10.271; From 5.11.0 · fixed in 5.15.222; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.1.189; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.158; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.112; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.55; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.9

References 8

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