CVE-2026-43037

ip6_tunnel: clear skb2->cb[] in ip4ip6_err()

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
May 1, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

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).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before ea9f65b27c8404e164848ebff1443310fd187629Affected
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before d6621f60192fe10c047a4487be42a6f4c150707fAffected
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before 2cc6e3b0fe0f0242d1f530a93a4924f48ab85ba5Affected
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before a0c4ce9900a108eaf55d0f3b399cb55999647d39Affected
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before 1063515ce15ff31065c4e7f8265f4c2fd3c54876Affected
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before 590f622669b97eaf7b57a1de7b0a6e68c5d8b2c3Affected
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before 4a622658f384b03560834cbe8ffcfe69a278f7c8Affected
  • c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796 to before 2edfa31769a4add828a7e604b21cb82aaaa05925Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.22Affected
  • before 2.6.22Not affected
  • 5.10.253 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.203 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.168 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.134 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.81 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.22 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.12 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

References

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