Bug 2461759 (CVE-2026-31685) - CVE-2026-31685 kernel: netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets
Summary: CVE-2026-31685 kernel: netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for a...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31685
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-25 09:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-28 09:52 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-25 09:01:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: ip6t_eui64: reject invalid MAC header for all packets

`eui64_mt6()` derives a modified EUI-64 from the Ethernet source address
and compares it with the low 64 bits of the IPv6 source address.

The existing guard only rejects an invalid MAC header when
`par->fragoff != 0`. For packets with `par->fragoff == 0`, `eui64_mt6()`
can still reach `eth_hdr(skb)` even when the MAC header is not valid.

Fix this by removing the `par->fragoff != 0` condition so that packets
with an invalid MAC header are rejected before accessing `eth_hdr(skb)`.


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