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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46244"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-03T15:48:59.049Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:55.855Z"
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-2026-46244"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46244.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46244"
title: "netfilter: nft_inner: Fix IPv6 inner_thoff desync"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_inner: Fix IPv6 inner_thoff desync\n\nIn nft_inner_parse_l2l3(), when processing inner IPv6 packets,\nipv6_find_hdr() correctly computes the transport header offset\ntraversing all extension headers, but the result is immediately\noverwritten with nhoff + sizeof(_ip6h) (40 bytes), which only\naccounts for the IPv6 base header. This creates a desync between\ninner_thoff (wrong — points to extension header start) and l4proto\n(correct — e.g., IPPROTO_TCP), enabling transport header forgery\nand potential firewall bypass. This issue affects stable versions\nfrom Linux 6.2.\n\nFor comparison, the normal (non-inner) IPv6 path correctly\npreserves ipv6_find_hdr()'s result. Removing the incorrect overwrite\nensures that ipv6_find_hdr()'s calculated transport header offset is\npreserved, thereby fixing the desynchronization."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3a07327d10a09379315c844c63f27941f5081e0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c161ad9157f5a0429b5ff94d9770faf3bf48d273"},{"version":"3a07327d10a09379315c844c63f27941f5081e0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"870d59e2cf218e7418491e26bad768cb16654582"},{"version":"3a07327d10a09379315c844c63f27941f5081e0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"689bbf48c1f45130086ae1c46ab83ea4c753c601"},{"version":"3a07327d10a09379315c844c63f27941f5081e0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0f98a3617f6ae5b1e95cde1e68e7ead4a1279ce"},{"version":"3a07327d10a09379315c844c63f27941f5081e0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6a91f68ebfed9c38e0e9150f58a9b85da07181c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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