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Linux Linux — tunnels: fix out of bounds access when building IPv6 PMTU error
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0068 49.5 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 4cb47a8644cc9eb8ec81190a50e79e6530d0297f – —
Linux 5.9 – 5.10.210
TIMELINE
Feb 19 Reserved by Linux
Apr 2 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-26665 (Linux). CVSS 9.1 → 7.1 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tunnels: fix out of bounds access when building IPv6 PMTU error
If the ICMPv6 error is built from a non-linear skb we get the following
splat,
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in do_csum+0x220/0x240
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811d402c80 by task netperf/820
CPU: 0 PID: 820 Comm: netperf Not tainted 6.8.0-rc1+ #543
...
kasan_report+0xd8/0x110
do_csum+0x220/0x240
csum_partial+0xc/0x20
skb_tunnel_check_pmtu+0xeb9/0x3280
vxlan_xmit_one+0x14c2/0x4080
vxlan_xmit+0xf61/0x5c00
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xfb/0x510
__dev_queue_xmit+0x7cd/0x32a0
br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x39d/0x6a0
Use skb_checksum instead of csum_partial who cannot deal with non-linear
SKBs.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| February 19, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| April 2, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-26665 (Linux). CVSS 9.1 → 7.1 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 4cb47a8644cc9eb8ec81190a50e79e6530d0297f | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.9 | 5.10.210 |
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