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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97612" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:21.423Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:16.030Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-97612" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97612.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97612" title: "net: mpls: clear inner_protocol when the last label is popped" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: mpls: clear inner_protocol when the last label is popped\n\nskb_mpls_push() records the pre-encapsulation network header once, gated\non !skb-\u003einner_protocol. skb_mpls_pop() never clears that record, so it\noutlives the encapsulation it describes.\n\nOpen vSwitch can then re-push MPLS onto a packet whose\ninner_network_header still points at the older, deeper offset: push a\nlabel, pop every label, recirculate (ovs_flow_key_update() re-derives\nkey-\u003eeth.type and resets network_header, but leaves inner_*), then push\nagain. ovs_fragment() trusts the record:\n\n\tskb-\u003enetwork_header = skb-\u003einner_network_header;\n\nso skb_network_offset() goes negative. The bound check is signed:\n\n\tif (skb_network_offset(skb) \u003e MAX_L2_LEN)\n\na negative offset passes it, and prepare_frag() widens the value:\n\n\tunsigned int hlen = skb_network_offset(skb);\n\tmemcpy(&data-\u003el2_data, skb-\u003edata, hlen);\n\nwhich is a ~4GiB memcpy out of a 30-byte per-CPU buffer.\n\nReproduced on v7.3-rc1. RDX is the truncated length, (unsigned int)(-8):\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe8ffffc16000\n #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode\n Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n RIP: 0010:memcpy+0x8/0x20\n RDX: 00000000fffffff8 RSI: ffff888105d732db RDI: ffffe8ffffc16000\n prepare_frag+0x3df/0x4e0\n ovs_fragment+0x589/0x7e0\n do_output+0x4ce/0x5e0\n do_execute_actions+0x55d2/0x7b30\n ovs_execute_actions+0xea/0x450\n\nSame root-cause shape as commit 975b5b067f52 (\"ipv6: sr: restore network\nheader before routing and forwarding\"): a stale network header offset\nreaching a consumer that widens it. Here it originates in the MPLS\npush/pop path.\n\nClear inner_protocol once the packet is no longer MPLS, so a later push\nre-records the current header. net/sched/act_mpls.c is the only other\nskb_mpls_pop() caller and gets the same fix; sch_frag.c saves and\nrestores inner_protocol around fragmentation in the same way OVS does." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55ed97db27bffe29c21fdefd5d25601322c36ff8"},{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"833ec2788322306407503b4cfc7745cd1f9d785f"},{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38db09804b2616aa1e2fcdf97f0c3ae8b9dbdd34"},{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b3425fd0ecd515997956f7bb8a8a576b444ed64"},{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"011e17b5cae19b9f6a150923275e41c278de64f0"},{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da8c3a7f5d3137fec4ff60a6248f5f6d66b6a63e"},{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b39120523475d6b436be7f6cb27d48064148a327"},{"version":"48d2ab609b6bbecb7698487c8579bc40de9d6dfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78a86d75a70e1e227711c72865c59b1422d0a5ae"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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