# 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-2026-45843"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T09:24:45.516Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:38.168Z"
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-2026-45843"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45843.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45843"
title: "slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nslip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length\n\nslhc_uncompress() parses a VJ-compressed TCP header by advancing a\npointer through the packet via decode() and pull16(). Neither helper\nbounds-checks against isize, and decode() masks its return with\n& 0xffff so it can never return the -1 that callers test for -- those\nerror paths are dead code.\n\nA short compressed frame whose change byte requests optional fields\nlets decode() read past the end of the packet. The over-read bytes\nare folded into the cached cstate and reflected into subsequent\nreconstructed packets.\n\nMake decode() and pull16() take the packet end pointer and return -1\nwhen exhausted. Add a bounds check before the TCP-checksum read.\nThe existing == -1 tests now do what they were always meant to."
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