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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64114" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T15:40:14.854Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:28:12.671Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64114" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64114.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64114" title: "ipv4: raw: reject IP_HDRINCL packets with ihl \u003c 5" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: raw: reject IP_HDRINCL packets with ihl \u003c 5\n\nraw_send_hdrinc() validates that the caller-supplied IPv4 header\nfits within the message length:\n\n iphlen = iph-\u003eihl * 4;\n err = -EINVAL;\n if (iphlen \u003e length)\n goto error_free;\n\n if (iphlen \u003e= sizeof(*iph)) {\n /* fix up saddr, tot_len, id, csum, transport_header */\n }\n\nIt does not, however, reject ihl \u003c 5. For such a packet the\n\"if (iphlen \u003e= sizeof(*iph))\" branch is skipped, leaving the\ncrafted iphdr untouched, but the packet is still handed to\n__ip_local_out() and onward. Downstream consumers that read\niph-\u003eihl assume a sane value: net/ipv4/ah4.c:ah_output() in\nparticular subtracts sizeof(struct iphdr) from top_iph-\u003eihl * 4\nand passes the (signed-int-negative, then cast to size_t)\nresult to memcpy(), producing an OOB access of length close to\nSIZE_MAX and a host kernel panic.\n\nAn IPv4 header with ihl \u003c 5 is malformed by definition (RFC 791:\n\"Internet Header Length is the length of the internet header in\n32 bit words ... Note that the minimum value for a correct header\nis 5.\"). The kernel should not be willing to inject such a\npacket into its own output path.\n\nReject \"iphlen \u003c sizeof(*iph)\" alongside the existing\n\"iphlen \u003e length\" check. This matches the principle that locally\nconstructed packets that re-enter the IP stack must pass the same\nbasic sanity tests that a foreign packet would be subjected to.\n\nOnce this lands, the \"if (iphlen \u003e= sizeof(*iph))\" wrapper around\nthe fixup branch becomes redundant; left in place to keep the\npatch minimal and backport-friendly. A follow-up can unwrap it.\n\nNote that commit 86f4c90a1c5c (\"ipv4, ipv6: ensure raw socket\nmessage is big enough to hold an IP header\") ensures the message\nbuffer is large enough to hold an iphdr, but does not constrain\nthe self-reported iph-\u003eihl.\n\nReachability: the malformed packet source is any caller with\nCAP_NET_RAW, including an unprivileged process in a user+net\nnamespace on a kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS=y. The reproduced AH\ncrash also requires a matching xfrm AH policy on the outgoing\nroute; a container granted CAP_NET_ADMIN can install that state\nand policy in its netns. Loopback bypasses xfrm_output, so the\ntrigger uses a real netdev.\n\nReproduced on UML + KASAN: kernel-mode fault at addr 0x0 with\nmemcpy_orig at the crash site. Same shape reproduces inside a\nrootless Docker container with --cap-add NET_ADMIN on a stock\ndistro kernel." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1065b9efa4126df559b03a849c139ecfae92cd25"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc20dbd48c26e743f7e0845020c11ed2ce8b15ee"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a564f737ec54d63e8ee221d3ff396d07586d464"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c5411fa4944ed99af3d9d1de750ea8169b6dac9"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"145e9afa5b905229b4788bb72c3255f5a5f77508"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7725cd3b471740fd23d25ed1da722c671fb2a5d3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bbe0be67de296176e7243c76e3d9f02f6ae9ff0b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"915fab69823a14c170dbaa3b41978768e0fe62fc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"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":"6.6.142","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"}] ## 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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