Critical severity · published May 6, 2026
CVE-2026-43186
ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()
9.8
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 51% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
5.15 before 5.15.202; 5.16 before 6.1.165; 6.2 before 6.6.128; 6.7 before 6.12.75; 6.13 before 6.18.16; 6.19 before 6.19.6 · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
9ee11f0fff205b4b3df9750bff5e94f97c71b6a0 before f4d9d4b8fd839719d564651671e24c62c545c23b; 9ee11f0fff205b4b3df9750bff5e94f97c71b6a0 before fb3c662fafebc5b9d74417ed1de8759f6bb72143; 9ee11f0fff205b4b3df9750bff5e94f97c71b6a0 before 632d233cf2e64a46865ae2c064ae3c9df7c8864f; 9ee11f0fff205b4b3df9750bff5e94f97c71b6a0 before 0591d6509c2ff13f09ea2998434aba0c0472e978; 9ee11f0fff205b4b3df9750bff5e94f97c71b6a0 before e90346a2f1e8917d5760a44a1f61c44e3b36d96b; 9ee11f0fff205b4b3df9750bff5e94f97c71b6a0 before ea3632aefc04205436868541638e26f4a74d5637; +2 more · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43186
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43186
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0591d6509c2ff13f09ea2998434aba0c0472e978
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/632d233cf2e64a46865ae2c064ae3c9df7c8864f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6db8b56eed62baacaf37486e83378a72635c04cc
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e90346a2f1e8917d5760a44a1f61c44e3b36d96b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea3632aefc04205436868541638e26f4a74d5637
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4d9d4b8fd839719d564651671e24c62c545c23b
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