Bug 2492119 (CVE-2026-52915) - CVE-2026-52915 kernel: netfilter: ip6t_hbh: reject oversized option lists
Summary: CVE-2026-52915 kernel: netfilter: ip6t_hbh: reject oversized option lists
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-52915
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-24 08:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-24 10:37 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-24 08:02:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: ip6t_hbh: reject oversized option lists

struct ip6t_opts stores at most IP6T_OPTS_OPTSNR option descriptors,
but hbh_mt6_check() does not reject larger optsnr values supplied from
userspace.

Validate optsnr in the rule setup path so only match data that fits the
fixed-size opts array can be installed. This follows the existing xtables
pattern of rejecting invalid user-provided counts in checkentry() and
keeps the packet matching path unchanged.

`struct ip6t_opts` has a fixed `opts[IP6T_OPTS_OPTSNR]` array,
where `IP6T_OPTS_OPTSNR` is 16, then off-by-one array access is possible:

[  137.924693][ T8692] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in ../net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_hbh.c:110:29
[  137.926167][ T8692] index 16 is out of range for type '__u16 [16]'

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-24 10:35:20 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062429-CVE-2026-52915-44dd@gregkh/T


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