{"cve":"CVE-2026-43186","nvd":{"published":"2026-05-06T12:16:37.300","modified":"2026-10-19T20:18:09.490","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()\n\nOn the receive path, __ioam6_fill_trace_data() uses trace->nodelen\nto decide how much data to write for each node. It trusts this field\nas-is from the incoming packet, with no consistency check against\ntrace->type (the 24-bit field that tells which data items are\npresent). A crafted packet can set nodelen=0 while setting type bits\n0-21, causing the function to write ~100 bytes past the allocated\nregion (into skb_shared_info), which corrupts adjacent heap memory\nand leads to a kernel panic.\n\nAdd a shared helper ioam6_trace_compute_nodelen() in ioam6.c to\nderive the expected nodelen from the type field, and use it:\n\n  - in ioam6_iptunnel.c (send path, existing validation) to replace\n    the open-coded computation;\n  - in exthdrs.c (receive path, ipv6_hop_ioam) to drop packets whose\n    nodelen is inconsistent with the type field, before any data is\n    written.\n\nPer RFC 9197, bits 12-21 are each short (4-octet) fields, so they\nare included in IOAM6_MASK_SHORT_FIELDS (changed from 0xff100000 to\n0xff1ffc00).","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-787","CWE-122"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0591d6509c2ff13f09ea2998434aba0c0472e978","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/632d233cf2e64a46865ae2c064ae3c9df7c8864f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db8b56eed62baacaf37486e83378a72635c04cc","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e90346a2f1e8917d5760a44a1f61c44e3b36d96b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea3632aefc04205436868541638e26f4a74d5637"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:43:09.190223697+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-43186","score":0.00642,"percentile":0.50497,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}