CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-45850

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-27 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-05-27
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: skip ipv6 extension headers for csum checks Protocol checksum validation fails for IPv6 if there are extension headers before the protocol header. iph->len already contains its offset, so use it to fix the problem.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.28 < 5.10.259) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.210) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.176) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.143) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.94) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.36) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.4)

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