CVE-2026-43186

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data() On the receive path, __ioam6_fill_trace_data() uses trace->nodelen to decide how much data to write for each node. It trusts this field as-is from the incoming packet, with no consistency check against trace->type (the 24-bit field that tells which data items are present). A crafted packet can set nodelen=0 while setting type bits 0-21, causing the function to write ~100 bytes past the allocated region (into skb_shared_info), which corrupts adjacent heap memory and leads to a kernel panic. Add a shared helper ioam6_trace_compute_nodelen() in ioam6.c to derive the expected nodelen from the type field, and use it: - in ioam6_iptunnel.c (send path, existing validation) to replace the open-coded computation; - in exthdrs.c (receive path, ipv6_hop_ioam) to drop packets whose nodelen is inconsistent with the type field, before any data is written. Per RFC 9197, bits 12-21 are each short (4-octet) fields, so they are included in IOAM6_MASK_SHORT_FIELDS (changed from 0xff100000 to 0xff1ffc00).

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4d9d4b8fd839719d564651671e24c62c545c23b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb3c662fafebc5b9d74417ed1de8759f6bb72143
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43186.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-43186

CWEs

CWE-787