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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80840" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:54:50.403Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:44:33.475Z" 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-2026-80840" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80840.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80840" title: "ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation\n\nEnd.DX4 and End.DT4 decapsulate an IPv4 packet through\ndecap_and_validate() and send it directly to IPv4 routing. The inner\npacket therefore bypasses ip_rcv_core(), which normally clears IPCB\nbefore IPv4 interprets skb-\u003ecb.\n\nThe skb instead retains IP6CB data from the outer packet. IP6CB and\nIPCB use the same skb-\u003ecb storage, so IP6CB(skb)-\u003elastopt overlaps\nIPCB(skb)-\u003eopt.optlen and srr, while IP6CB(skb)-\u003enhoff overlaps rr and\nts.\n\nThe sender can make the stale optlen byte nonzero with a valid outer\nextension-header chain. The reproducers put an eight-byte Destination\nOptions header immediately after the 40-byte IPv6 header and before the\nSegment Routing Header. ipv6_destopt_rcv() records the sender-controlled\nDestination Options offset in both lastopt and nhoff, setting them to\n40. On the reproduced little-endian x86-64 kernel, IPv4 therefore sees\noptlen = 40 and rr = 40.\n\nBoth tcp_v4_save_options() and __ip_options_echo() skip option copying\nwhen optlen is zero. Here optlen is 40, so the TCP SYN path allocates\nroom for 40 bytes of option data and calls __ip_options_echo(). The\nstale rr value makes that function read inner packet byte 41 as the\nRecord Route option length. The reproducers set that sender-controlled\nbyte to 255, so __ip_options_echo() copies 255 bytes into the 40-byte\noption-data area.\n\nSeparate End.DX4 and End.DT4 reproducers on the unpatched v7.2-rc5\nkernel both produced:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __ip_options_echo()\n Write of size 255\n\nThe relevant End.DX4 call path is:\n\n __ip_options_echo\n tcp_v4_route_req\n tcp_conn_request\n tcp_v4_conn_request\n tcp_rcv_state_process\n tcp_v4_do_rcv\n tcp_v4_rcv\n ip_protocol_deliver_rcu\n ip_local_deliver_finish\n ip_local_deliver\n input_action_end_dx4_finish\n input_action_end_dx4\n\nThe relevant End.DT4 call path is:\n\n __ip_options_echo\n tcp_v4_route_req\n tcp_conn_request\n tcp_v4_conn_request\n tcp_rcv_state_process\n tcp_v4_do_rcv\n tcp_v4_rcv\n ip_protocol_deliver_rcu\n ip_local_deliver_finish\n ip_local_deliver\n input_action_end_dt4\n\ntcp_v4_save_options() is inlined into the tcp_v4_route_req() path, so\nit does not appear as a separate frame.\n\nWhen decap_and_validate() handles IPPROTO_IPIP, save the ingress\ninterface from IP6CB, clear IPCB, and restore the saved value. Doing\nthis in the common decapsulation path covers End.DX4, End.DT4, and\nEnd.DT46's IPv4 arm.\n\nUse IP6CB(skb)-\u003eiif rather than skb-\u003eskb_iif. These actions run after\nl3mdev processing, which can replace skb_iif with the L3 master;\nIP6CB iif still records the receiving interface set at IPv6 ingress." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"10fd1a8f58ac619a9e251f2858e2e2c8fd6cd667"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb0f422487228e140f3d609b032ac61aedcab8fa"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9039e4f3e1c0ffe2b575b655b3f58fdd10f7e40c"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f52f1e75716d2ee49e013edf204ac92337c72fd8"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e3f01fe2e704e76af4385b8a1742641885a191c"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e4476e58343fb8f2fffced9e22d935376b17aaf"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf1c1151560d11036a144d917fa4c131831342d7"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4be3b391265e24c7720fc867c50062b436acf33"},{"version":"891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44930446dde45a7a90fe1446fa38eb0e2c561646"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.10.269","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.220","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.187","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.49","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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