CVE-2026-74747 PUBLISHED

ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 26.08.2026 Updated: 26.08.2026

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

ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access

While the outer IP header is already pulled into the skb head, we must be careful and revalidate the embedded headers after reading them from the skb frags to prevent out-of-bounds access.

One such place reported by Sashiko is ip_vs_nat_icmp() where local process can change the ihl field and after skb_ensure_writable() we can see larger value which is a problem for the ip_send_check(cih) calls.

Add check to drop the packet if the ihl field is changed.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 5365f012451fce2453f13a568dcb72ea534c1e4d (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to d93660df4dd1d116f608ada4a29a80a5d6f0a6ed (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.10 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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