CVE-2026-80844 (GCVE-0-2026-80844)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-04 15:54 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:44
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left
AH6 rearranges routing-header addresses before computing or verifying the
ICV. ipv6_rearrange_rthdr() assumes that segments_left is not larger than
the number of addresses described by the routing header's hdrlen field.
That assumption does not hold for raw IPv6 HDRINCL packets. A packet with
hdrlen equal to 2 describes one address, but can carry an arbitrary
segments_left value. With segments_left equal to 255, the function moves
its address pointer 4,064 bytes backwards and passes a 4,064-byte length to
memmove(), resulting in an out-of-bounds access.
Validate the invariant locally before modifying the routing header or
performing any address-pointer arithmetic, and propagate malformed-header
errors to the existing AH6 input and output error paths.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 2dc650956e4e163b879b3fb1027f9557abc5c985
(git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 48b0e36cf54358276ee7aa897034c973097d2bc9 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1b7e066eabcc7d6d8f476c34739b45932f2f4c31 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f00df8500e5a36ba70d336fd34bd2152ea074e5f (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1516e31ac458a738be485620579d8f7fb2700fcb (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6733ae71268a27d598cfb3f3339a3c950b9b656d (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 0bf11081ad3753938a2b48723ce6298dbac743a1 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 46640c814f25f096b0b0045ca50e1b7030cd8a30 (git) Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 7bad4bda74dc4713f398d3b7624ff05478e3a568 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.269 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.220 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.187 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.156 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.108 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.49 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.13 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.3 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.