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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hzephyr

Weaknesses

  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Zephyrzephyrproject-rtos
  • before 3.7.2Affected
  • 4.0.0 to before 4.2.2Affected
  • 4.3.0 to before 4.3.1Affected

References

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