Bug 2559654 (CVE-2026-98934)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-98934 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via missing network context in IPv6 segment routing | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 Segment Routing (SRv6) subsystem. This vulnerability can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) when the kernel processes certain encapsulated packets—such as discovery traffic lacking socket or device associations—while segment routing flow labeling is enabled. Because the kernel fails to supply the required network context during packet flow dissection, handling such packets triggers kernel warnings and potential system instability.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: sr: use skb_get_hash_net() in seg6_make_flowlabel() Since commit d58e468b1112 ("flow_dissector: implements flow dissector BPF hook") __skb_flow_dissect() needs a net pointer, either from skb->dev, skb->sk, or since commit 3cbf4ffba5ee ("net: plumb network namespace into __skb_flow_dissect") a caller provided pointer. syzbot was able to reach seg6_make_flowlabel() with an skb having neither skb->dev nor skb->sk set: a TIPC UDP bearer sends a discovery message through an IPv4 route using seg6 encap, while net.ipv6.seg6_flowlabel is set to 1. seg6_make_flowlabel() already has a net pointer, use skb_get_hash_net(). WARNING: net/core/flow_dissector.c:1131 at __skb_flow_dissect+0x910/0x5368 net/core/flow_dissector.c:1126, CPU#0: syz.0.17/4930 Call trace: __skb_flow_dissect+0x910/0x5368 net/core/flow_dissector.c:1126 (P) __skb_get_hash_net+0xe0/0x29c net/core/flow_dissector.c:1903 skb_get_hash include/linux/skbuff.h:1663 [inline] seg6_make_flowlabel+0xcc/0x1ec net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c:132 __seg6_do_srh_encap+0x320/0xbf4 net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c:161 seg6_do_srh+0x4b4/0xa44 net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c:431 seg6_output_core+0x164/0x688 net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c:681 seg6_output+0x44/0x1ac net/ipv6/seg6_iptunnel.c:744 lwtunnel_output+0x3d0/0x664 net/core/lwtunnel.c:356 dst_output include/net/dst.h:470 [inline] ip_local_out+0x110/0x148 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:131 iptunnel_xmit+0x50c/0xd38 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:97 udp_tunnel_xmit_skb+0x220/0x348 net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_core.c:187 tipc_udp_xmit+0x75c/0x9c0 net/tipc/udp_media.c:202 tipc_udp_send_msg+0x214/0x374 net/tipc/udp_media.c:274 tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0x260/0x3b0 net/tipc/bearer.c:576 tipc_enable_bearer net/tipc/bearer.c:366 [inline] __tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0xc90/0xfb0 net/tipc/bearer.c:1048 tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0x2c/0x48 net/tipc/bearer.c:1057 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1e4/0x2d4 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114