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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-45842" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-27T09:24:42.637Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:19:45.645Z" 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-2026-45842" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45842.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45842" title: "slip: reject VJ receive packets on instances with no rstate array" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nslip: reject VJ receive packets on instances with no rstate array\n\nslhc_init() accepts rslots == 0 as a valid configuration, with the\ndocumented meaning of 'no receive compression'. In that case the\nallocation loop in slhc_init() is skipped, so comp-\u003erstate stays\nNULL and comp-\u003erslot_limit stays 0 (from the kzalloc of struct\nslcompress).\n\nThe receive helpers do not defend against that configuration.\nslhc_uncompress() dereferences comp-\u003erstate[x] when the VJ header\ncarries an explicit connection ID, and slhc_remember() later assigns\ncs = &comp-\u003erstate[...] after only comparing the packet's slot number\nto comp-\u003erslot_limit. Because rslot_limit is 0, slot 0 passes the\nrange check, and the code dereferences a NULL rstate.\n\nThe configuration is reachable in-tree through PPP. PPPIOCSMAXCID\nstores its argument in a signed int, and (val \u003e\u003e 16) uses arithmetic\nshift. Passing 0xffff0000 therefore sign-extends to -1, so val2 + 1\nis 0 and ppp_generic.c ends up calling slhc_init(0, 1). Because\n/dev/ppp open is gated by ns_capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN), the whole path\nis reachable from an unprivileged user namespace. Once the malformed\nVJ state is installed, any inbound VJ-compressed or VJ-uncompressed\nframe that selects slot 0 crashes the kernel in softirq context:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical\n address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n RIP: 0010:slhc_uncompress (drivers/net/slip/slhc.c:519)\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ppp_receive_nonmp_frame (drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2466)\n ppp_input (drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c:2359)\n ppp_async_process (drivers/net/ppp/ppp_async.c:492)\n tasklet_action_common (kernel/softirq.c:926)\n handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:623)\n run_ksoftirqd (kernel/softirq.c:1055)\n smpboot_thread_fn (kernel/smpboot.c:160)\n kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)\n ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nReject the receive side on such instances instead of touching rstate.\nslhc_uncompress() falls through to its existing 'bad' label, which\nbumps sls_i_error and enters the toss state. slhc_remember() mirrors\nthat with an explicit sls_i_error increment followed by slhc_toss();\nthe sls_i_runt counter is not used here because a missing rstate is\nan internal configuration state, not a runt packet.\n\nThe transmit path is unaffected: the only in-tree caller that picks\nrslots from userspace (ppp_generic.c) still supplies tslots \u003e= 1, and\nslip.c always calls slhc_init(16, 16), so comp-\u003etstate remains valid\nand slhc_compress() continues to work." affected: 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