CVE-2026-43037: ip6_tunnel: clear skb2->cb[] in ip4ip6_err()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip6_tunnel: clear skb2->cb[] in ip4ip6_err() Oskar Kjos reported the following problem. ip4ip6_err() calls icmp_send() on a cloned skb whose cb[] was written by the IPv6 receive path as struct inet6_skb_parm. icmp_send() passes IPCB(skb2) to __ip_options_echo(), which interprets that cb[] region as struct inet_skb_parm (IPv4). The layouts differ: inet6_skb_parm.nhoff at offset 14 overlaps inet_skb_parm.opt.rr, producing a non-zero rr value. __ip_options_echo() then reads optlen from attacker-controlled packet data at sptr[rr+1] and copies that many bytes into dopt->__data, a fixed 40-byte stack buffer (IP_OPTIONS_DATA_FIXED_SIZE). To fix this we clear skb2->cb[], as suggested by Oskar Kjos. Also add minimal IPv4 header validation (version == 4, ihl >= 5).
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 9.8
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< ea9f65b27c8404e164848ebff1443310fd187629 (from c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796) · < d6621f60192fe10c047a4487be42a6f4c150707f (from c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796) · < 2cc6e3b0fe0f0242d1f530a93a4924f48ab85ba5 (from c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796) · < a0c4ce9900a108eaf55d0f3b399cb55999647d39 (from c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796) · < 1063515ce15ff31065c4e7f8265f4c2fd3c54876 (from c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796) · < 590f622669b97eaf7b57a1de7b0a6e68c5d8b2c3 (from c4d3efafcc933fd2ffd169d7dc4f980393a13796)
- Linux / Linux2.6.22Fixed in 0, 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.168, 6.6.134, 6.12.81, 6.18.22, 6.19.12, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H