# 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-2026-80603"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:29.158Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:30.043Z"
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-2026-80603"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80603.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80603"
title: "netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: fix parse_dcc() off-by-one OOB read"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: fix parse_dcc() off-by-one OOB read\n\nparse_dcc() treats data_end as an inclusive end pointer, but its only\ncaller passes data_limit = ib_ptr + datalen, which points one past the\nlast valid byte.\n\nThe newline search loop iterates while tmp \u003c= data_end, so when no\nnewline is present, *tmp is read at tmp == data_end, one byte beyond\nthe region filled by skb_header_pointer().\n\nirc_buffer is kmalloc'd as MAX_SEARCH_SIZE + 1 bytes and datalen is\ncapped at MAX_SEARCH_SIZE, so the stray read does not fault.  The byte\nis uninitialized or stale; if it contains an ASCII digit, simple_strtoul\nwill consume it and produce a wrong DCC IP or port in the conntrack\nexpectation.  The extra allocation byte is also a fragile guard: if the\ncap or allocation size changes, this becomes a real out-of-bounds read.\n\nChange the loop and its post-loop check to use strict less-than,\nconsistent with the caller's exclusive-end convention.  Update the\nfunction comment accordingly."
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