CVE-2026-43037
HIGHDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_tunnel: clear skb2->cb[] in ip4ip6_err() Oskar Kjos reported the following problem. ip4ip6_err() calls icmp_send() on a cloned skb whose cb[] was written by the IPv6 receive path as struct inet6_skb_parm. icmp_send() passes IPCB(skb2) to __ip_options_echo(), which interprets that cb[] region as struct inet_skb_parm (IPv4). The layouts differ: inet6_skb_parm.nhoff at offset 14 overlaps inet_skb_parm.opt.rr, producing a non-zero rr value. __ip_options_echo() then reads optlen from attacker-controlled packet data at sptr[rr+1] and copies that many bytes into dopt->__data, a fixed 40-byte stack buffer (IP_OPTIONS_DATA_FIXED_SIZE). To fix this we clear skb2->cb[], as suggested by Oskar Kjos. Also add minimal IPv4 header validation (version == 4, ihl >= 5).
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 40% of all known CVEs.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1063515ce15ff31065c4e7f8265f4c2fd3c54876
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cc6e3b0fe0f0242d1f530a93a4924f48ab85ba5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2edfa31769a4add828a7e604b21cb82aaaa05925
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a622658f384b03560834cbe8ffcfe69a278f7c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/590f622669b97eaf7b57a1de7b0a6e68c5d8b2c3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0c4ce9900a108eaf55d0f3b399cb55999647d39
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6621f60192fe10c047a4487be42a6f4c150707f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea9f65b27c8404e164848ebff1443310fd187629
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