CVE-2026-13351
net: Maliciously fragmented IPv6 packets can prevent receiving/processing future incoming packets
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Jun 25, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Jun 25, 2026
Description
Zephyr's IPv6 network stack can be prevented from receiving or processing future incoming packets by sending a small number of maliciously fragmented IPv6 packets. When such a packet is handled by the fragment-header processing path, the associated RX network packet buffer (allocated from a memory slab) is not released back to the pool. Repeating the malicious packet exhausts all RX buffer slots, after which the device can no longer obtain RX buffers and stops receiving traffic, resulting in a denial of service.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | zephyr |
Weaknesses
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Zephyrzephyrproject-rtos |
|
References
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