# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72250"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:39.134Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:13.023Z"
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-2026-72250"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72250.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72250"
title: "netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag\n\nnf_ct_frag6_reasm() slides the packet head forward to drop the IPv6\nfragment header and then unconditionally advances skb-\u003emac_header:\n\n\tskb-\u003emac_header += sizeof(struct frag_hdr);\n\nOn the NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT defrag path the skb has no link-layer header\nyet, so skb-\u003emac_header is still the \"not set\" sentinel (u16)~0U. Adding\nsizeof(struct frag_hdr) wraps it to a small value (0xffff + 8 == 7),\nafter which skb_mac_header_was_set() wrongly reports a MAC header is\npresent and skb_mac_header() points into the headroom.\n\nThe reassembler has done this unconditional add since it was introduced;\nit was harmless while mac_header was a bare pointer, but wrong once\nmac_header became a u16 offset whose unset state is the ~0U sentinel\ntested by skb_mac_header_was_set(). The sibling net/ipv6/reassembly.c\ndoes the same relocation and does guard the adjustment; mirror the\nguard here."
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