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Critical 9.8Published Jul 19, 2026

CVE-2026-64132ipv6: ioam: refresh hdr pointer before ioam6_event()

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: ioam: refresh hdr pointer before ioam6_event() Reported by Sashiko: In ipv6_hop_ioam(), the hdr pointer is initialized to point into the skb's linear data buffer. Later, the code calls skb_ensure_writable(), which might reallocate the buffer: if (skb_ensure_writable(skb, optoff + 2 + hdr->opt_len)) goto drop; /* Trace pointer may have changed */ trace = (struct ioam6_trace_hdr *)(skb_network_header(skb) + optoff + sizeof(*hdr)); ioam6_fill_trace_data(skb, ns, trace, true); ioam6_event(IOAM6_EVENT_TRACE, dev_net(skb->dev), GFP_ATOMIC, (void *)trace, hdr->opt_len - 2); If the skb is cloned or lacks sufficient linear headroom, skb_ensure_writable() will invoke pskb_expand_head(), which reallocates the skb's data buffer and frees the old one, invalidating pointers to it. While the code recalculates the trace pointer immediately after the call to skb_ensure_writable(), it fails to recalculate the hdr pointer. This patch fixes the above by recalculating the hdr pointer before passing hdr->opt_len to ioam6_event(), so that we avoid any UaF.

CVSS
9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Aug 5, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from f655c78d6225f585ef60a9d93ffb79d507ff3ad3 before 769723124b7c3b2bfea4cf68ad292698b87c8d01; from f655c78d6225f585ef60a9d93ffb79d507ff3ad3 before 24de676da63c1122d2c13b0d546238b66d1b4e62; from f655c78d6225f585ef60a9d93ffb79d507ff3ad3 before 5af905aa8e91ff8d94572a1e089558f21dcf24ed; from f655c78d6225f585ef60a9d93ffb79d507ff3ad3 before e46e6bc97fb1f339730ff1ba74267fbf48e7a422
CNA record
linux linux_kernel
linux:linux_kernel
from 6.9 before 6.12.92; from 6.13 before 6.18.34; from 6.19 before 7.0.11; 7.1; 7.1; 7.1; 7.1
NVD

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