# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98531"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:49.632Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:14.351Z"
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-2026-98531"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98531.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98531"
title: "ipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: sr: enforce exact attribute length for SEG6_ATTR_DST\n\nIn seg6_genl_policy, SEG6_ATTR_DST is defined with .type = NLA_BINARY and\n.len = sizeof(struct in6_addr). For NLA_BINARY, .len only enforces the\nmaximum payload length and permits shorter payloads (e.g., 0 bytes).\nWhen seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() copies sizeof(struct in6_addr) bytes via\nkmemdup(val, sizeof(*val), GFP_KERNEL), a short SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute\ntriggers a 16-byte out-of-bounds read past skb-\u003etail into uninitialized\nskb-\u003ehead memory, which is stored in sdata-\u003etun_src and leaked back to\nuserspace via SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC.\n\nSwitch SEG6_ATTR_DST in seg6_genl_policy to\nNLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)) so that generic netlink\nvalidation rejects any attribute whose length is not exactly\nsizeof(struct in6_addr) with -ERANGE.\n\nTested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by sending a SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC\nGeneric Netlink message with a 0-byte SEG6_ATTR_DST attribute followed\nby SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC. On the unfixed kernel, SEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC\nsucceeds (err = 0) and SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC leaks 16 bytes of\nuninitialized kernel heap memory (tun_src =\n836a61ecc4d25a1042a8d60411cfb378); with this patch applied,\nSEG6_CMD_SET_TUNSRC is rejected by netlink policy validation with\n-ERANGE (-34) and tun_src remains zeroed."
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