CVE-2026-98531
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST In seg6_genl_policy, SEG6_ATTR_DST is defined with .type = NLA_BINARY and .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr). For NLA_BINARY, .len only enforces the maximum payload length and permits shorter payloads (e.g., 0 bytes). When seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() copies sizeof(struct in6_addr) bytes via kmemdup(val, sizeof(*val), GFP_KERNEL), a short SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute triggers a 16-byte out-of-bounds read past skb->tail into uninitialized skb->head memory, which is stored in sdata->tun_src and leaked back to userspace via SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC. Switch SEG6_ATTR_DST in seg6_genl_policy to NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)) so that generic netlink validation rejects any attribute whose length is not exactly sizeof(struct in6_addr) with -ERANGE. Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by sending a SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC Generic Netlink message with a 0-byte SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute followed by SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC. On the unfixed kernel, SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC succeeds (err = 0) and SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC leaks 16 bytes of uninitialized kernel heap memory (tun_src = 836a61ecc4d25a1042a8d60411cfb378); with this patch applied, SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC is rejected by netlink policy validation with -ERANGE (-34) and tun_src remains zeroed.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | 050a0aa3c80907b8c60a396b7e04d48d8b1a9e70 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | 209eefebee54c4a5f01d68b61e8ac9881eca2de9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | e3ac68c1cdc2535d127b2bfd50c263d16c8e4199 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | 66bf65fa109326e4c4ddeb0b94093379f72838fd | Unavailable | None listed |
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | 195813bb7324c338eaba0aaa02b18681ee65b670 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | 6fcfc362344edea745a69f3a705de50b731f3418 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | 94214cf0a08dd2c5f37aeeea46078d9dfe8e4a0e | Unavailable | None listed |
| 915d7e5e5930b4f01d0971d93b9b25ed17d221aa | affected | git | 2d959c75c27f90e9ec489d18ce5ee6b852ad4741 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.10 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.10 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.271 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.222 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.189 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.158 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.112 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.55 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.2.9 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.2.* | None listed |
| 7.3 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |