GHSA-JV4J-682X-84W7
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-04 18:31 – Updated: 2026-09-04 18:31In 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.
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"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-80844"
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"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left\n\nAH6 rearranges routing-header addresses before computing or verifying the\nICV. ipv6_rearrange_rthdr() assumes that segments_left is not larger than\nthe number of addresses described by the routing header\u0027s hdrlen field.\n\nThat assumption does not hold for raw IPv6 HDRINCL packets. A packet with\nhdrlen equal to 2 describes one address, but can carry an arbitrary\nsegments_left value. With segments_left equal to 255, the function moves\nits address pointer 4,064 bytes backwards and passes a 4,064-byte length to\nmemmove(), resulting in an out-of-bounds access.\n\nValidate the invariant locally before modifying the routing header or\nperforming any address-pointer arithmetic, and propagate malformed-header\nerrors to the existing AH6 input and output error paths.",
"id": "GHSA-jv4j-682x-84w7",
"modified": "2026-09-04T18:31:29Z",
"published": "2026-09-04T18:31:28Z",
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