CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-46244

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2026-06-03 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-06-03
Last modified
2026-10-19
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-682, CWE-823

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_inner: Fix IPv6 inner_thoff desync In nft_inner_parse_l2l3(), when processing inner IPv6 packets, ipv6_find_hdr() correctly computes the transport header offset traversing all extension headers, but the result is immediately overwritten with nhoff + sizeof(_ip6h) (40 bytes), which only accounts for the IPv6 base header. This creates a desync between inner_thoff (wrong — points to extension header start) and l4proto (correct — e.g., IPPROTO_TCP), enabling transport header forgery and potential firewall bypass. This issue affects stable versions from Linux 6.2. For comparison, the normal (non-inner) IPv6 path correctly preserves ipv6_find_hdr()'s result. Removing the incorrect overwrite ensures that ipv6_find_hdr()'s calculated transport header offset is preserved, thereby fixing the desynchronization.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.142) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.92) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.34) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.11) • linux linux kernel 7.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-682 Incorrect Calculation weakness
  • CWE-823 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset weakness

References