CVE-2026-98573 PUBLISHED

net: skbuff: fix pull-bound underflow in skb_checksum_setup_ipv6()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

net: skbuff: fix pull-bound underflow in skb_checksum_setup_ipv6()

skb_maybe_pull_tail() subtracts skb_headlen(skb) from the unsigned max argument and passes the result to __pskb_pull_tail() as a signed int. The function does not ensure that max is at least skb_headlen(skb).

This can happen while parsing IPv6 extension headers when an skb already has a linear area larger than MAX_IPV6_HDR_LEN. Once the parser needs data beyond the linear area, max - skb_headlen(skb) wraps and is converted to a negative delta. __pskb_pull_tail() then passes that negative length to skb_copy_bits(), where it can become a very large copy length.

Pass the requested length itself as the pull bound at the three extension-header call sites, so the delta can no longer go negative.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to 9c4e432132a97b82edf28fa172c39f743e6bfb26 (excl.)
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to 718747afa5463d9cc5fd9a09f03b2a492edd9b78 (excl.)
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to a0ad0473c09d2e947aecac5c82e637ec85924b12 (excl.)
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to b2da5ed3d8c75e1b729a21b6d3beaed415e263f6 (excl.)
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to 6c28c31f051dbf49c71ba7ab7bb9bc905fa1d14b (excl.)
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to cfa643f2ca36c6f913fe1a2ceb12412ebb0fd962 (excl.)
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to d7f474226809471dc7877435e9c492cc914df0bf (excl.)
  • affected from 1431fb31ecbaba1b5718006128f0f2ed0b94e1c3 to 3b4e0b0c008a8c1b474730248cd5b873026c74bd (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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