Tracker / CVE-2026-45843
CVE-2026-45843
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length slhc_uncompress() parses a VJ-compressed TCP header by advancing a pointer through the packet via decode() and pull16(). Neither helper bounds-checks against isize, and decode() masks its return with & 0xffff so it can never return the -1 that callers test for -- those error paths are dead code. A short compressed frame whose change byte requests optional fields lets decode() read past the end of the packet. The over-read bytes are folded into the cached cstate and reflected into subsequent reconstructed packets. Make decode() and pull16() take the packet end pointer and return -1 when exhausted. Add a bounds check before the TCP-checksum read. The existing == -1 tests now do what they were always meant to.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.12.1 → 5.10.258 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.209 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.175 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.33 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.10 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.141 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.91 |