# 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-2026-72400"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:25.572Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:21.670Z"
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-2026-72400"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72400.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72400"
title: "seg6: validate SRH length before reading fixed fields"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nseg6: validate SRH length before reading fixed fields\n\nseg6_validate_srh() reads fixed SRH fields such as srh-\u003etype and\nsrh-\u003ehdrlen before checking that the supplied length covers the fixed\nstruct ipv6_sr_hdr fields.\n\nThe BPF SEG6 encap path reaches this with a BPF program-supplied pointer\nand length: bpf_lwt_push_encap() and the SEG6 local BPF END_B6 and\nEND_B6_ENCAP actions call bpf_push_seg6_encap(), which forwards the\nlength to seg6_validate_srh() with no minimum-size guard.  A 2-byte SEG6\nencap header can therefore make the validator read srh-\u003etype at offset 2\nbeyond the caller-supplied buffer.\n\nReject lengths shorter than the fixed SRH at the top of\nseg6_validate_srh(), before any field is read.  This fixes the BPF helper\npath and keeps the common validator robust."
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