Bug 2524481 (CVE-2026-74747) - CVE-2026-74747 kernel: ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access
Summary: CVE-2026-74747 kernel: ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74747
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-26 14:59 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-03 15:32 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-26 14:59:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access

While the outer IP header is already pulled into the skb head,
we must be careful and revalidate the embedded headers after
reading them from the skb frags to prevent out-of-bounds
access.

One such place reported by Sashiko is ip_vs_nat_icmp() where
local process can change the ihl field and after
skb_ensure_writable() we can see larger value which is a
problem for the ip_send_check(cih) calls.

Add check to drop the packet if the ihl field is changed.


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