In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv() optlen is fetched without checking whether there is more than one byte to parse. It can lead to out-of-bounds access. Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.2NVD modified 2026-10-15 22:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/011f47c8b8389154f996f5f69da8efc3a3beefef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04bf69e3de435d793a203aacc4b774f8f9f2baeb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59e656d0d4a84ea0ee9a39c6f69160a3effccc94
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/878ecb0897f4737a4c9401f3523fd49589025671
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91dd8aab9c9f193210681b86b6b92840ffe74f0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b92e2d0eb696d7586ba832c8854653b59887da0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae68c0f7edbc9a294094ce03a0aaf45aa489ce40
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5f82688ae10f5f386952e65e941bb8868ee54dc