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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.1 Critical

CVE-2026-72348

netfilter: ip6tables: mark malformed IPv6 extension headers for hotdrop

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ip6tables: mark malformed IPv6 extension headers for hotdrop The ah, hbh and rt matches check that the fixed extension header is present, then use the header length field to derive the advertised extension header length for matching. For the ah match, add the missing advertised-length check. For hbh and rt, update the existing advertised-length checks. In all three cases, set hotdrop to true before returning false when the advertised extension header length exceeds the available skb data. Returning false treats the packet as a rule mismatch. Set hotdrop to true and drop malformed packets so they cannot bypass rules intended to drop packets with these IPv6 extension headers.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < f16d856b6af5fd0e7cb0b0212f70825b599ef72eaffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < fc416870100cf16d5b9495199355a679c3a02d48affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < f775fcf384b06f35b612f78fa5601fee99eb6513affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 2fd89a50a9783eed8ed23866b11c8b3d8779a7a8affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 3578b6d92a5b1e603ae6e8c8f5538a709f03aba4affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 3d441be2b1c5e98167302fa1c7b61960a067b112affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < d5e39e5eb6b30bc4a3bb7aba54c293cf36a806c7affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 43ccc20b5a733226417832cf16ef45322e594990affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 2.6.12affected
  • 0 to < 2.6.12unaffected
  • 5.10.261 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.212 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.178 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.145 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.97 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

References