CVE-2026-98532
Status: ReceivedUnscored—
Severity—Unscored
Exploitation probability0.22 %higher than 12% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: do not let ipv6_find_hdr() return an offset past the packet end
ipv6_find_hdr() walks the extension header chain, skipping each header by the length that header itself declares. ipv6_optlen() returns up to 2048, and the skip is never checked against skb->len, so the offset stored in *offset can point past the end of the packet.
openvswitch installs that offset as the transport header, and update_ipv6_checksum() then reads and writes the transport checksum field out of bounds:
Other callers use that offset too, so bound it here rather than in one caller.
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Reject a header whose declared length does not fit in the packet. ipv6_find_hdr() already fails with -EBADMSG on a malformed chain, so this adds no new failure mode.
Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88810b754b06 by task ovs_ipv6_oob/629 CPU: 4 UID: 1000 PID: 629 Comm: ovs_ipv6_oob Tainted: G N 7.3.0-rc3+ #348 Call Trace: inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470 set_ipv6_addr+0x3dd/0x460 do_execute_actions+0x6a3d/0x7c40 ovs_execute_actions+0xfd/0x480 ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xc38/0xf20 genl_rcv_msg+0x59e/0x870 netlink_rcv_skb+0x18b/0x450 genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x6bc/0xa20 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810b754980 which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704 The buggy address is located 390 bytes inside of freed 704-byte region [ffff88810b754980, ffff88810b754c40)
CVSS
NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.22 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 12
- Score date
- 10/20/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.
References
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c70275ca87e769e1a52abc644d61372d8c016cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d42828565889632068fbc2983c34d57c66af4e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4254d5878c320c19961dd0b8e1d0aca4800d8b7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/531255de8971c06d5d5986f85fdc2525d707ba71
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/543354c6efb27eae3372a3a9674aeaa2a86e2b2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca96b38730e31357ef4a9d76af1336958ac670d7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc92cb972e86790b8078337ec41015b748b8f8e5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee319bd3a0e976af5087cbe59ebc50a66f31d202
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: do not let ipv6_find_hdr() return an offset past the packet end\n\nipv6_find_hdr() walks the extension header chain, skipping each header by\nthe length that header itself declares. ipv6_optlen() returns up to 2048,\nand the skip is never checked against skb->len, so the offset stored in\n*offset can point past the end of the packet.\n\nopenvswitch installs that offset as the transport header, and\nupdate_ipv6_checksum() then reads and writes the transport checksum field\nout of bounds:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470\n Read of size 2 at addr ffff88810b754b06 by task ovs_ipv6_oob/629\n CPU: 4 UID: 1000 PID: 629 Comm: ovs_ipv6_oob Tainted: G N 7.3.0-rc3+ #348\n Call Trace:\n inet_proto_csum_replace16+0x445/0x470\n set_ipv6_addr+0x3dd/0x460\n do_execute_actions+0x6a3d/0x7c40\n ovs_execute_actions+0xfd/0x480\n ovs_packet_cmd_execute+0xc38/0xf20\n genl_rcv_msg+0x59e/0x870\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x18b/0x450\n genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40\n netlink_unicast+0x6bc/0xa20\n\n The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810b754980\n which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704\n The buggy address is located 390 bytes inside of\n freed 704-byte region [ffff88810b754980, ffff88810b754c40)\n\nOther callers use that offset too, so bound it here rather than in one\ncaller.\n\nReject a header whose declared length does not fit in the packet.\nipv6_find_hdr() already fails with -EBADMSG on a malformed chain, so this\nadds no new failure mode."
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