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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43501" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-21T12:17:49.885Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:38.012Z" 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-2026-43501" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43501.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43501" title: "ipv6: rpl: reserve mac_len headroom when recompressed SRH grows" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: rpl: reserve mac_len headroom when recompressed SRH grows\n\nipv6_rpl_srh_rcv() decompresses an RFC 6554 Source Routing Header, swaps\nthe next segment into ipv6_hdr-\u003edaddr, recompresses, then pulls the old\nheader and pushes the new one plus the IPv6 header back. The\nrecompressed header can be larger than the received one when the swap\nreduces the common-prefix length the segments share with daddr (CmprI=0,\nCmprE\u003e0, seg[0][0] != daddr[0] gives the maximum +8 bytes).\n\npskb_expand_head() was gated on segments_left == 0, so on earlier\nsegments the push consumed unchecked headroom. Once skb_push() leaves\nfewer than skb-\u003emac_len bytes in front of data,\nskb_mac_header_rebuild()'s call to:\n\n\tskb_set_mac_header(skb, -skb-\u003emac_len);\n\nwill store (data - head) - mac_len into the u16 mac_header field, which\nwraps to ~65530, and the following memmove() writes mac_len bytes ~64KiB\npast skb-\u003ehead.\n\nA single AF_INET6/SOCK_RAW/IPV6_HDRINCL packet over lo with a two\nsegment type-3 SRH (CmprI=0, CmprE=15) reaches headroom 8 after one\npass; KASAN reports a 14-byte OOB write in ipv6_rthdr_rcv.\n\nFix this by expanding the head whenever the remaining room is less than\nthe push size plus mac_len, and request that much extra so the rebuilt\nMAC header fits afterwards." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bde199c72d319a4e207f88daabc888317504e2fb"},{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be1fa0aa9b4fdd5a8b7a61ba520a690a68391e6e"},{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a9e8053f1f8a8e1bfc1dd61ffe67be6c1180402"},{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e8be63465a5e80394c70324603dfea1bfdad48f"},{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4babc2d9fda2df43823b85d08a0180b68f1b0854"},{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c261d07a80576dc8ccf394ef8f074f8c67a06b37"},{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7398ebefbfd4f8a31d4f665a4213302fa995494b"},{"version":"8610c7c6e3bd647ff98d21c8bc0580e77bc2f8b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e6bf146b55999a095bb14f73a843942456d1adc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.27","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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