# 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-2026-98573"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:38.914Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:58.681Z"
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-2026-98573"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98573.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98573"
title: "net: skbuff: fix pull-bound underflow in skb_checksum_setup_ipv6()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: skbuff: fix pull-bound underflow in skb_checksum_setup_ipv6()\n\nskb_maybe_pull_tail() subtracts skb_headlen(skb) from the unsigned max\nargument and passes the result to __pskb_pull_tail() as a signed int.  The\nfunction does not ensure that max is at least skb_headlen(skb).\n\nThis can happen while parsing IPv6 extension headers when an skb already\nhas a linear area larger than MAX_IPV6_HDR_LEN.  Once the parser needs data\nbeyond the linear area, max - skb_headlen(skb) wraps and is converted to a\nnegative delta.  __pskb_pull_tail() then passes that negative length to\nskb_copy_bits(), where it can become a very large copy length.\n\nPass the requested length itself as the pull bound at the three\nextension-header call sites, so the delta can no longer go negative."
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