{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-63924", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-07-19T07:54:57.021Z", "datePublished": "2026-07-19T14:55:25.702Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:37:19.118Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:37:19.118Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: exthdrs: refresh nh pointer after ipv6_hop_jumbo()\n\nipv6_hop_jumbo() calls pskb_trim_rcsum(), which can change skb pointers.\nLet's recompute nh pointer to make sure any change won't mess things up." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 9.8, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:N - The bug is in the IPv6 input path (ipv6_rcv → ip6_rcv_core → ipv6_parse_hopopts) triggered by a crafted IPv6 packet with hop-by-hop options containing a Jumbo Payload TLV, reachable from any remote peer that can deliver IPv6 to the host.\nAC:L - An attacker fully controls the crafted IPv6 packet (HBH layout, jumbo length, trailing TLVs) and can send it repeatedly; once the skb is cloned/shared during receive and pskb_trim_rcsum reallocates the head, the stale-pointer UAF is deterministically triggered without races or victim-specific state.\nPR:N - No authentication or local privileges are required; any unauthenticated remote host that can send IPv6 traffic to a listening interface reaches the vulnerable receive handler with no capability or namespace checks along the path.\nUI:N - Exploitation requires only delivery of a malicious IPv6 packet and does not depend on any victim user action such as opening files, clicking links, or mounting filesystems.\nS:U - Impact is confined to kernel memory corruption and privilege escalation within the same kernel security domain; it does not cross a VM, container, or IOMMU boundary by itself.\nC:H - Continued HBH TLV parsing through the stale nh pointer is a use-after-free read of freed skb head memory, which per kernel guidance enables arbitrary kernel memory disclosure when the freed slab is reused.\nI:H - Stale-pointer UAF during TLV length/type parsing can yield unbounded out-of-bounds reads and corrupt subsequent parsing state, providing memory corruption primitives that can be developed into arbitrary kernel writes or code execution.\nA:H - Dereferencing the freed network-header pointer during TLV parsing can cause immediate kernel oops/panic from invalid memory access, and UAF-triggered parsing errors reliably drop or crash the receive path." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": 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