# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43037"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:35.314Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:10.690Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43037"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43037.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43037"
title: "ip6_tunnel: clear skb2-\u003ecb[] in ip4ip6_err()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nip6_tunnel: clear skb2-\u003ecb[] in ip4ip6_err()\n\nOskar Kjos reported the following problem.\n\nip4ip6_err() calls icmp_send() on a cloned skb whose cb[] was written\nby the IPv6 receive path as struct inet6_skb_parm. icmp_send() passes\nIPCB(skb2) to __ip_options_echo(), which interprets that cb[] region\nas struct inet_skb_parm (IPv4). The layouts differ: inet6_skb_parm.nhoff\nat offset 14 overlaps inet_skb_parm.opt.rr, producing a non-zero rr\nvalue. __ip_options_echo() then reads optlen from attacker-controlled\npacket data at sptr[rr+1] and copies that many bytes into dopt-\u003e__data,\na fixed 40-byte stack buffer (IP_OPTIONS_DATA_FIXED_SIZE).\n\nTo fix this we clear skb2-\u003ecb[], as suggested by Oskar Kjos.\n\nAlso add minimal IPv4 header validation (version == 4, ihl \u003e= 5)."
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