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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98570" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:36.308Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:55.765Z" 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-2026-98570" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98570.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98570" title: "net: ipv6: keep room for the mac header in dst_dev_overhead()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ipv6: keep room for the mac header in dst_dev_overhead()\n\nThe seg6, ioam6 and rpl lwtunnels size their skb_cow_head() request as\nthe length they are about to push plus dst_dev_overhead(), then push the\nnew headers and rebuild the mac header below them with\nskb_mac_header_rebuild(). That rebuild needs skb-\u003emac_len of headroom,\nbut dst_dev_overhead() leaves LL_RESERVED_SPACE() of the egress device,\n16 bytes for plain Ethernet.\n\nWhere the mac header is longer than that, as it is on ingress through a\nVLAN device with reorder_hdr off, the rebuild runs out of room:\nskb_set_mac_header(skb, -skb-\u003emac_len) computes a negative offset,\nstores it unchecked in the u16 skb-\u003emac_header, and the memmove that\nfollows writes skb-\u003emac_len bytes about 64 KB past skb-\u003ehead.\nForwarding plain ping6 traffic through such a device reproduces it on\nall five seg6 encapsulation modes and on the rpl and ioam6 inline paths;\nskb-\u003emac_header comes back as 65534 on a 704-byte head.\n\nReturn the larger of the two. The helper already returns skb-\u003emac_len\nwhen it has no dst, so this only makes the other branch agree, and it\ncovers every caller rather than each call site in turn." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dce525185bc92864e5a318040285ee070563fe34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36c07127924f11fc5741a780abcaaf808fe9ef13"},{"version":"dce525185bc92864e5a318040285ee070563fe34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87cd6b717e4069dca34e0866e57eaeb44d3b173e"},{"version":"8471e228448a818e4c27cab4b681b2e758e46cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c432cd18a07b623651ed15ea167bd303467004cc","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"634710a372ba65bee667c2f6e58a97658c639eab","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c447c5a9c47bb4858ab12bf90879fe595d2b7f46","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ab9de9c48316d2622d3bf353916b99971570e2c9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2fcc9f3798ef82399564d247458e69abd10e683b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"371d8dc298b4f59e99b4564ac5d906fce0932c69","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b26f015dfb07b6be12d005a0ed0c5c43b7bedbf3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c0b11dc50590e10590b39dcda79835cd32f49d00","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4c12c3c8abd8b888945d31e7bdbb0d8b73032fc5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"25d8e065c7972dc98fd7a4cac322d5367eaede88","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4a855c5aec41bf84922224ab7a74e088776e3ac4","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a9f0407414e16176fdbbbd298c9e18d6dfdf96bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.13.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.81","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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