CVE-2026-45843: slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length slhc_uncompress() parses a VJ-compressed TCP header by advancing a pointer through the packet via decode() and pull16(). Neither helper bounds-checks against isize, and decode() masks its return with & 0xffff so it can never return the -1 that callers test for -- those error paths are dead code. A short compressed frame whose change byte requests optional fields lets decode() read past the end of the packet. The over-read bytes are folded into the cached cstate and reflected into subsequent reconstructed packets. Make decode() and pull16() take the packet end pointer and return -1 when exhausted. Add a bounds check before the TCP-checksum read. The existing == -1 tests now do what they were always meant to.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 8.2
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 37537e42e6df387398bee85cb85070cc80bb1e10 (from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2) · < 4cefe32639933d652614b0bd50f818f9af4af78f (from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2) · < 0511ecb00e61bf28e2fec4bb41fcce385c3a3b2d (from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2) · < d42bec6e4f6d6d658be365539400b3314b76b2a7 (from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2) · < 4c1367a2d7aad643a6f87c6931b13cc1a25e8ca7 (from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2)
- Linux / Linux2.6.12Fixed in 0, 6.6.141, 6.12.91, 6.18.33, 7.0.10, 7.1-rc1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N