# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43186"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:27:57.053Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:16:23.065Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43186"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43186.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43186"
title: "ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()\n\nOn the receive path, __ioam6_fill_trace_data() uses trace-\u003enodelen\nto decide how much data to write for each node. It trusts this field\nas-is from the incoming packet, with no consistency check against\ntrace-\u003etype (the 24-bit field that tells which data items are\npresent). A crafted packet can set nodelen=0 while setting type bits\n0-21, causing the function to write ~100 bytes past the allocated\nregion (into skb_shared_info), which corrupts adjacent heap memory\nand leads to a kernel panic.\n\nAdd a shared helper ioam6_trace_compute_nodelen() in ioam6.c to\nderive the expected nodelen from the type field, and use it:\n\n  - in ioam6_iptunnel.c (send path, existing validation) to replace\n    the open-coded computation;\n  - in exthdrs.c (receive path, ipv6_hop_ioam) to drop packets whose\n    nodelen is inconsistent with the type field, before any data is\n    written.\n\nPer RFC 9197, bits 12-21 are each short (4-octet) fields, so they\nare included in IOAM6_MASK_SHORT_FIELDS (changed from 0xff100000 to\n0xff1ffc00)."
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