Tracker / CVE-2026-46244
CVE-2026-46244
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 products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.34 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 7.0.11 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.142 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.92 |