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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80976" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:38.215Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:00.756Z" 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-2026-80976" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80976.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80976" title: "seg6: reset IP6CB after IPv6 decapsulation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nseg6: reset IP6CB after IPv6 decapsulation\n\ndecap_and_validate() pulls the outer SRv6 headers and makes the inner\npacket the skb network header. The IPv6 control block still contains\nvalues collected while parsing the outer packet, including nhoff and\nextension-header flags.\n\nEnd.DX6 and End.DT6 route the inner IPv6 packet directly to the IPv6\ninput path. An unprivileged user can reach End.DT6 from a user and net\nnamespace by installing a local SID and injecting an outer packet with\nHop-by-Hop and Destination Options headers followed by an SRH and a\nminimal inner IPv6 packet.\n\nThe outer extension headers leave a large nhoff in IP6CB. After\ndecapsulation, ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu() uses that stale offset on the\ninner packet and reads beyond the skb head. KASAN reports:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu\n ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x1118/0x1450\n ip6_input_finish+0x11b/0x240\n seg6_local_input_core+0xed/0x2e0\n lwtunnel_input+0x1e9/0x4e0\n ipv6_rthdr_rcv+0x525f/0x6c50\n ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xcb7/0x1450\n\nBefore clearing IP6CB for an inner IPv6 packet, save its incoming\ninterface index and L3 slave state. Restore both after the clear and set\nnhoff to the inner IPv6 base-header nexthdr field.\n\nUse IP6CB(skb)-\u003eiif rather than skb-\u003eskb_iif because VRF processing can\nreplace skb_iif with the L3 master while IP6CB keeps the receiving\ninterface. Preserve IP6SKB_L3SLAVE for the same reason." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1f0d353358987ca87f21d8956e2d2854951130d"},{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0e2b0a3718f0cf9fb0ee41710b4a6348a7315c8"},{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ae92198c24d7dacd4070e2f34f6e1ed3a63061c"},{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96c74420ac92930a7e0f21770818544eee4a93d7"},{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b154e96fcb3f01fd42765c64e0a56820fbc16eb"},{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfa186a0857a0f831dfca67b16bbc40ecfdf3280"},{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c73fb911e02b9a766c950bc9707f3e3a96ffd702"},{"version":"d7a669dd2f8ba07a17423f4ad586dfc0379882f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f967455fb2a5a2079b9eb5823e9ccf359174bf9f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","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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