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CVE-2026-43501

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: rpl: reserve mac_len headroom when recompress

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: rpl: reserve mac_len headroom when recompressed SRH grows ipv6_rpl_srh_rcv() decompresses an RFC 6554 Source Routing Header, swaps the next segment into ipv6_hdr-daddr, recompresses, then pulls the old header and pushes the new one plus the IPv6 header back. The recompressed header can be larger than the received one when the swap reduces the common-prefix length the segments share with daddr (CmprI=0, CmprE>0, seg[0][0] != daddr[0] gives the maximum +8 bytes). pskb_expand_head() was gated on segments_left == 0, so on earlier segments the push consumed unchecked headroom. Once skb_push() leaves fewer than skb-mac_len bytes in front of data, skb_mac_header_rebuild()'s call to: skb_set_mac_header(skb, -skb-mac_len); will store (data - head) - mac_len into the u16 mac_header field, which wraps to ~65530, and the following memmove() writes mac_len bytes ~64KiB past skb-head. A single AF_INET6/SOCK_RAW/IPV6_HDRINCL packet over lo with a two segment type-3 SRH (CmprI=0, CmprE=15) reaches headroom 8 after one pass.

KASAN reports a 14-byte OOB write in ipv6_rthdr_rcv. Fix this by expanding the head whenever the remaining room is less than the push size plus mac_len, and request that much extra so the rebuilt MAC header fits afterwards.

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 0.0007
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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ATT&CK techniques

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Fixed versions by distribution

80
The package version that resolves this CVE on each Linux distribution, from the vendor’s published security data. fixed in shows a patched version exists; open means the package is listed as affected with no fix yet.
rhel 9kernel fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-64k open
rhel 9kernel-64k-core open
rhel 9kernel-64k-debug open
rhel 9kernel-64k-debug-core open
rhel 9kernel-64k-debug-devel open
rhel 9kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched open
rhel 9kernel-64k-debug-modules open
rhel 9kernel-64k-debug-modules-core open
rhel 9kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra open
rhel 9kernel-64k-devel open
rhel 9kernel-64k-devel-matched open
rhel 9kernel-64k-modules open
rhel 9kernel-64k-modules-core open
rhel 9kernel-64k-modules-extra fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-abi-stablelists open
rhel 9kernel-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-debug fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-debug-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-debug-devel fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-debug-devel-matched fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-debug-modules fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-debug-modules-core open
rhel 9kernel-debug-modules-extra open
rhel 9kernel-debug-uki-virt fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-devel fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-devel-matched fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-modules open
rhel 9kernel-modules-core open
rhel 9kernel-modules-extra open
rhel 9kernel-rt open
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-debug fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-debug-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel open
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-devel fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-modules open
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-modules-core open
rhel 9kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra open
rhel 9kernel-rt-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-debug fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-debug-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-debug-devel fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-debug-modules open
rhel 9kernel-rt-debug-modules-core open
rhel 9kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-devel open
rhel 9kernel-rt-modules open
rhel 9kernel-rt-modules-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-rt-modules-extra fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-tools open
rhel 9kernel-tools-libs fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-tools-libs-devel fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-uki-virt open
rhel 9kernel-uki-virt-addons open
rhel 9kernel-zfcpdump open
rhel 9kernel-zfcpdump-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-zfcpdump-devel fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched open
rhel 9kernel-zfcpdump-modules fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9libperf open
rhel 9perf fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9python3-perf open
rhel 9rtla fixed in 0:5.14.0-687.15.1.el9_8
rhel 9rv open
suse sle15cluster-md-kmp-default fixed in 0:6.4.0-150600.23.115.1
suse sle15dlm-kmp-default fixed in 0:6.4.0-150600.23.115.1
suse sle15gfs2-kmp-default fixed in 0:6.4.0-150600.23.115.1
suse sle15kernel-64kb fixed in 0:6.4.0-150600.23.115.1
suse sle15kernel-default fixed in 0:6.4.0-150600.23.115.1
suse sle15kernel-default-base fixed in 0:6.4.0-150600.23.115.1.150600.12.54.1
suse sle15kernel-default-devel open
suse sle15kernel-default-man open
suse sle15kernel-devel open

Scoring & Timeline

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS v3.1 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD21 May 2026 · 01:16 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vendor Advisories

8
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:2383-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:2331-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:2332-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2026:2310-1
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