CVE-2026-98306

seg6: set IPSKB_L3SLAVE from IP6SKB_L3SLAVE on IPIP decapsulation

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

seg6: set IPSKB_L3SLAVE from IP6SKB_L3SLAVE on IPIP decapsulation

When an SRv6 packet arrives on an interface enslaved to a VRF, vrf_ip6_rcv() sets IP6SKB_L3SLAVE in IP6CB, but decap_and_validate() has never set IPSKB_L3SLAVE in IPCB. The bit stayed clear in the common case, and with CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6 the leftover frag_max_size of a reassembled outer packet could even set it, with no VRF involved. Commit 44930446dde4 ("ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation") then made the unreliable bit reliably clear.

The effect of the missing flag is visible with End.DX4 when a delivery to a local address of the node reaches the socket lookup. For example, a UDP socket bound to the enslaved ingress interface does not receive any of the decapsulated packets, while an unbound socket outside the VRF does. This contradicts Documentation/networking/vrf.rst: by default the scope of an unbound UDP or TCP socket is limited to the default VRF.

Set IPSKB_L3SLAVE for IPv4 in decap_and_validate(), which already does the same for IPv6. The socket lookup then matches the decapsulated packet like any other packet received on that enslaved interface. Such a packet matches an unbound UDP or TCP socket only when udp_l3mdev_accept or tcp_l3mdev_accept is set.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before 1d9f5c78903dd25a3556229eb716dd465c5f3573Affected
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before 72f410616000d21a0a6ec6c93a60301b9c92e95cAffected
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before e4d7c52f15f572608374947c6c802052e1a2fc82Affected
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before 5130afa025c95faa621adf8bac525baeb2b290d2Affected
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before f8fb4738ccef5f9d107845b05734a56352747b1aAffected
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before ddf60220c925b54a1714c4722fdbdb12833232d0Affected
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before 8c16e1ccc082a3763dfc6bc2d3f658c1a6336f9dAffected
  • 891ef8dd2a8d14e4e73a81dcdb135b574c57f556 to before 7616242a2b37883f7322aaa1d2bd6cd0fed28315Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.14Affected
  • before 4.14Not affected
  • 5.10.271 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.222 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.189 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.158 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.54 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.8 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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