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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98372" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:56.529Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:24.195Z" 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-2026-98372" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98372.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98372" title: "xfrm: iptfs: fix stack OOB read in iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: iptfs: fix stack OOB read in iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk()\n\niptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk() advances to the fragment containing @offset\nwith an unbounded loop:\n\n\twhile (offset \u003e= walk-\u003epast + walk-\u003efrags[walk-\u003efragi].len)\n\t\twalk-\u003epast += walk-\u003efrags[walk-\u003efragi++].len;\n\nwalk-\u003efragi is advanced and walk-\u003efrags[walk-\u003efragi] is dereferenced\nwithout ever checking fragi against walk-\u003enr_frags. When the requested\noffset is at or beyond the total length spanned by the walk's fragments,\nfragi runs past nr_frags and off the end of the fixed-size on-stack\nfrags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1] array, reading out-of-bounds stack memory.\n\nThe two callers behave differently: iptfs_skb_add_frags() already guards\nagainst this with\n\n\tif (!walk-\u003enr_frags ||\n\t offset \u003e= walk-\u003etotal + walk-\u003einitial_offset)\n\t\treturn len;\n\nbut iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() has no such guard and calls\niptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk() unconditionally, so it performs the\nout-of-range walk. Its own \"fragi \u003c walk-\u003enr_frags\" bound check runs only\nafterwards, too late to prevent the read.\n\nThis is reachable from the receive path: a crafted IP-TFS (AGGFRAG)\npayload delivered to an IPTFS SA drives iptfs_reassem_cont() -\u003e\niptfs_skb_can_add_frags() with an offset past the fragment total, e.g.:\n\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk+0x235/0x250\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff888008ad7210 by task repro/345\n iptfs_skb_reset_frag_walk+0x235/0x250 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:392\n iptfs_skb_can_add_frags+0x155/0x310 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:420\n iptfs_reassem_cont+0xcf8/0x1140 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:902\n iptfs_input_ordered+0x552/0x670 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:1280\n iptfs_input+0x3d6/0xde0 net/xfrm/xfrm_iptfs.c:1741\n xfrm_input+0x282f/0x6140 net/xfrm/xfrm_input.c:700\n xfrm4_esp_rcv+0x93/0x120 net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c:104\n ip_rcv+0x278/0x2d0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:612\n\nGive iptfs_skb_can_add_frags() the same up-front guard that\niptfs_skb_add_frags() already has, so the walk is never entered with an\nout-of-range offset. When it triggers, the caller falls back to the\nexisting linearize-and-copy path, which is safe." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5f2b6a9095743a6bf1f34c43c4fe78fa8bdf5ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e1c6884a0b494b7e3f204877f94c1e07a117bf7"},{"version":"5f2b6a9095743a6bf1f34c43c4fe78fa8bdf5ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da56d0ee93d1bad779b0486f2fab92d1bc1f0cf3"},{"version":"5f2b6a9095743a6bf1f34c43c4fe78fa8bdf5ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d042487dc118e494db2e2c1382310255c90ff544"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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