{"id":"CVE-2026-98532","title":"ipv6: do not let ipv6_find_hdr() return an offset past the packet end","summary":"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 …","severity":"none","vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","affected":["Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7","Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71","Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c","Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5","Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb","Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0","Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 4254d5878c320c19961dd0b8e1d0aca4800d8b7d","Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < ee319bd3a0e976af5087cbe59ebc50a66f31d202","Linux 3.8"],"published":"2026-10-18","updated":"2026-10-18","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-18T15:17:50.490Z","source":"CVEORG","sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98532","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4254d5878c320c19961dd0b8e1d0aca4800d8b7d"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee319bd3a0e976af5087cbe59ebc50a66f31d202"}],"tags":["cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-18T15:45:12.278Z","slug":"CVE-2026-98532","body":"## Overview\n\nIn 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->len, 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7`\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71`\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c`\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5`\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb`\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0`\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < 4254d5878c320c19961dd0b8e1d0aca4800d8b7d`\n- `Linux >= f8f626754ebeca613cf1af2e6f890cfde0e74d5b < ee319bd3a0e976af5087cbe59ebc50a66f31d202`\n- `Linux 3.8`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}