{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-52915", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-06-09T07:44:35.367Z", "datePublished": "2026-06-24T07:14:12.569Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:31:37.987Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:31:37.987Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: ip6t_hbh: reject oversized option lists\n\nstruct ip6t_opts stores at most IP6T_OPTS_OPTSNR option descriptors,\nbut hbh_mt6_check() does not reject larger optsnr values supplied from\nuserspace.\n\nValidate optsnr in the rule setup path so only match data that fits the\nfixed-size opts array can be installed. This follows the existing xtables\npattern of rejecting invalid user-provided counts in checkentry() and\nkeeps the packet matching path unchanged.\n\n`struct ip6t_opts` has a fixed `opts[IP6T_OPTS_OPTSNR]` array,\nwhere `IP6T_OPTS_OPTSNR` is 16, then off-by-one array access is possible:\n\n[ 137.924693][ T8692] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in ../net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_hbh.c:110:29\n[ 137.926167][ T8692] index 16 is out of range for type '__u16 [16]'" } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The attacker must locally install a malformed IPv6 xtables/nft_compat hbh or dst match rule; the later packet evaluation can be driven by traffic, but the vulnerable state is created through local netfilter control interfaces.\nAC:L - No race or rare external condition is required: the attacker supplies optsnr > 16 and then causes matching IPv6 extension-header traffic to be evaluated.\nPR:L - Rule installation requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the target network namespace, and netfilter configuration is reachable by an unprivileged local user via a user+network namespace on systems allowing user namespaces.\nUI:N - Once the attacker has local access and required namespace capability, no victim action is needed to install the malformed rule or trigger packet evaluation.\nS:U - The impact remains within the kernel/network namespace security authority; this is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or other cross-scope boundary violation.\nC:H - The oversized optsnr causes out-of-bounds reads past the fixed opts[16] array into adjacent kernel memory, and repeated attacker-controlled packet comparisons can serve as a kernel-memory disclosure oracle.\nI:N - The vulnerable code only reads out-of-bounds values and compares them with packet option bytes; it does not provide an out-of-bounds write or direct data modification primitive.\nA:H - The out-of-bounds array access can run past the installed match object during packet evaluation and was observed by UBSAN; in hardened or unlucky memory layouts this can produce an oops/panic." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_hbh.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "2d523ba48d4ecc46acfb6aba548292cfcce1ac02", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "588933f1a2ca5ff99274f8c9f25dc3a25d0191c3", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "784aadea7a108c9f90985683caa87fb0198c6a39", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "41ec2e242f1702e8370ddfe14d22b7a766021c3e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "db0250470f023f159094052c0bd5ab026a88ae93", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "57b0ac5e1b46f1f0338dff392ef2092e2871b412", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "6feb43c0995ab3a9c826707eb46541a1696fe4f7", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "lessThan": "4322dcde6b4173c2d8e8e6118ed290794263bcc8", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_hbh.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "2.6.12", "status": "affected" }, { 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