FKIE_CVE-2026-98532

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-18 16:17 - Updated: 2026-10-19 10:19
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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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4254d5878c320c19961dd0b8e1d0aca4800d8b7d
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee319bd3a0e976af5087cbe59ebc50a66f31d202
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: do not let ipv6_find_hdr() return an offset past the packet end\n\nipv6_find_hdr() walks the extension header chain, skipping each header by\nthe length that header itself declares.  ipv6_optlen() returns up to 2048,\nand the skip is never checked against skb-\u003elen, so the offset stored in\n*offset can point past the end of the packet.\n\nopenvswitch installs that offset as the transport header, and\nupdate_ipv6_checksum() then reads and writes the transport checksum field\nout of bounds:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470\n  Read of size 2 at addr ffff88810b754b06 by task ovs_ipv6_oob/629\n  CPU: 4 UID: 1000 PID: 629 Comm: ovs_ipv6_oob Tainted: G N 7.3.0-rc3+ #348\n  Call Trace:\n   inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470\n   set_ipv6_addr+0x3dd/0x460\n   do_execute_actions+0x6a3d/0x7c40\n   ovs_execute_actions+0xfd/0x480\n   ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xc38/0xf20\n   genl_rcv_msg+0x59e/0x870\n   netlink_rcv_skb+0x18b/0x450\n   genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40\n   netlink_unicast+0x6bc/0xa20\n\n  The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810b754980\n   which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704\n  The buggy address is located 390 bytes inside of\n   freed 704-byte region [ffff88810b754980, ffff88810b754c40)\n\nOther callers use that offset too, so bound it here rather than in one\ncaller.\n\nReject a header whose declared length does not fit in the packet.\nipv6_find_hdr() already fails with -EBADMSG on a malformed chain, so this\nadds no new failure mode."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-98532",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:19:08.690",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-10-18T16:17:04.790",
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