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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74598" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-22T15:31:47.859Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:06:00.288Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74598" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74598.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74598" title: "ipv6: fix Route Information option length validation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: fix Route Information option length validation\n\nrt6_route_rcv() validates the Route Information option (RFC 4191) length\nagainst the prefix length, but both checks are off by one.\n\nrinfo-\u003elength is the ND option length in units of 8 octets and it\n*includes* the 8-byte option header, so an option carrying N bytes of\nprefix has length == 1 + N/8. RFC 4191 section 2.3 requires length 3\nwhen Prefix Length is greater than 64, and 2 or 3 when it is greater\nthan 0. The code accepts length \u003e= 2 and length \u003e= 1 respectively.\n\nipv6_addr_prefix() then copies prefix_len/8 bytes out of rinfo-\u003eprefix,\nso a Router Advertisement with (prefix_len=128, length=2) or\n(prefix_len=64, length=1) makes the kernel read up to 8 bytes past the\nend of the option. Those bytes end up in the prefix of the route that\ngets installed, so they are visible to userspace:\n\n # RA with a Route Information option (prefix_len=128, length=2)\n # followed by a source link-layer address option, 01 01 de ad be ef ca fe\n $ ip -6 route show\n 2001:db8:dead:beef:101:dead:beef:cafe via fe80::1234 dev veth0 proto ra\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the next option, read out of bounds\n\nWhen the Route Information option is the last one in the packet, those\neight bytes come from the skb tail room instead.\n\nReject the option lengths RFC 4191 does not allow." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f6f94eda12430fb41b24b44a71e2ea4e93561d7"},{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7eac87396c44a312be457ef41d4c5687883be9a2"},{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7309529f257ae18e72112ef9f614edfd6df229bb"},{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b9e02f3bd31c888f2ccdc0ca08e546d6abe9c4d"},{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff3cb05289b8a4ef95fa7ea14c7d34818359edbb"},{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b2231e358d26e3aec5d8040b1fb777af03c5f05"},{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da64ed1f346ba84df574d6469fa2e422b2511719"},{"version":"70ceb4f53929f73746be72f73707cd9f8753e2fc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1ad8fb2ac6a1afb71dc22d9ae8efb4dda96c824"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.17"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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