CVE-2026-98570

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98570
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98570.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98570
Downstream
Published
2026-10-18T15:18:36Z
Modified
2026-10-20T02:30:33Z
Summary
net: ipv6: keep room for the mac header in dst_dev_overhead()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ipv6: keep room for the mac header in dst_dev_overhead()

The seg6, ioam6 and rpl lwtunnels size their skb_cow_head() request as the length they are about to push plus dst_dev_overhead(), then push the new headers and rebuild the mac header below them with skb_mac_header_rebuild(). That rebuild needs skb->mac_len of headroom, but dst_dev_overhead() leaves LL_RESERVED_SPACE() of the egress device, 16 bytes for plain Ethernet.

Where the mac header is longer than that, as it is on ingress through a VLAN device with reorder_hdr off, the rebuild runs out of room: skb_set_mac_header(skb, -skb->mac_len) computes a negative offset, stores it unchecked in the u16 skb->mac_header, and the memmove that follows writes skb->mac_len bytes about 64 KB past skb->head. Forwarding plain ping6 traffic through such a device reproduces it on all five seg6 encapsulation modes and on the rpl and ioam6 inline paths; skb->mac_header comes back as 65534 on a 704-byte head.

Return the larger of the two. The helper already returns skb->mac_len when it has no dst, so this only makes the other branch agree, and it covers every caller rather than each call site in turn.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98570.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
dce525185bc92864e5a318040285ee070563fe34
Fixed
36c07127924f11fc5741a780abcaaf808fe9ef13
Fixed
87cd6b717e4069dca34e0866e57eaeb44d3b173e
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.12.16
Fixed
6.13
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.13.4
Fixed
6.14
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.179
Fixed
5.16
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.1.130
Fixed
6.2
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.6.81
Fixed
6.7
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.10.235
Fixed
5.11
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
8471e228448a818e4c27cab4b681b2e758e46cf5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c432cd18a07b623651ed15ea167bd303467004cc
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
634710a372ba65bee667c2f6e58a97658c639eab
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c447c5a9c47bb4858ab12bf90879fe595d2b7f46
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
ab9de9c48316d2622d3bf353916b99971570e2c9
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2fcc9f3798ef82399564d247458e69abd10e683b
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
371d8dc298b4f59e99b4564ac5d906fce0932c69
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b26f015dfb07b6be12d005a0ed0c5c43b7bedbf3
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c0b11dc50590e10590b39dcda79835cd32f49d00
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4c12c3c8abd8b888945d31e7bdbb0d8b73032fc5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
25d8e065c7972dc98fd7a4cac322d5367eaede88
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4a855c5aec41bf84922224ab7a74e088776e3ac4
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a9f0407414e16176fdbbbd298c9e18d6dfdf96bc

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.10.235
v5.10.236
v5.10.237
v5.10.238
v5.10.239
v5.10.240
v5.10.241
v5.10.242
v5.10.243
v5.10.244
v5.10.245
v5.10.246
v5.10.247
v5.10.248
v5.10.249
v5.10.250
v5.10.251
v5.10.252
v5.10.253
v5.10.254
v5.10.255
v5.10.256
v5.10.257
v5.10.258
v5.10.259
v5.10.260
v5.10.261
v5.10.262
v5.10.263
v5.10.264
v5.10.265
v5.10.266
v5.10.267
v5.10.268
v5.10.269
v5.10.270
v5.10.271
v5.10.272
v5.15.179
v5.15.180
v5.15.181
v5.15.182
v5.15.183
v5.15.184
v5.15.185
v5.15.186
v5.15.187
v5.15.188
v5.15.189
v5.15.190
v5.15.191
v5.15.192
v5.15.193
v5.15.194
v5.15.195
v5.15.196
v5.15.197
v5.15.198
v5.15.199
v5.15.200
v5.15.201
v5.15.202
v5.15.203
v5.15.204
v5.15.205
v5.15.206
v5.15.207
v5.15.208
v5.15.209
v5.15.210
v5.15.211
v5.15.212
v5.15.213
v5.15.214
v5.15.215
v5.15.216
v5.15.217
v5.15.218
v5.15.219
v5.15.220
v5.15.221
v5.15.222
v5.15.223
v6.*
v6.1.130
v6.1.131
v6.1.132
v6.1.133
v6.1.134
v6.1.135
v6.1.136
v6.1.137
v6.1.138
v6.1.139
v6.1.140
v6.1.141
v6.1.142
v6.1.143
v6.1.144
v6.1.145
v6.1.146
v6.1.147
v6.1.148
v6.1.149
v6.1.150
v6.1.151
v6.1.152
v6.1.153
v6.1.154
v6.1.155
v6.1.156
v6.1.157
v6.1.158
v6.1.159
v6.1.160
v6.1.161
v6.1.162
v6.1.163
v6.1.164
v6.1.165
v6.1.166
v6.1.167
v6.1.168
v6.1.169
v6.1.170
v6.1.171
v6.1.172
v6.1.173
v6.1.174
v6.1.175
v6.1.176
v6.1.177
v6.1.178
v6.1.179
v6.1.180
v6.1.181
v6.1.182
v6.1.183
v6.1.184
v6.1.185
v6.1.186
v6.1.187
v6.1.188
v6.1.189
v6.1.190
v6.12.100
v6.12.101
v6.12.102
v6.12.103
v6.12.104
v6.12.105
v6.12.106
v6.12.107
v6.12.108
v6.12.109
v6.12.110
v6.12.111
v6.12.112
v6.12.113
v6.12.16
v6.12.17
v6.12.18
v6.12.19
v6.12.20
v6.12.21
v6.12.22
v6.12.23
v6.12.24
v6.12.25
v6.12.26
v6.12.27
v6.12.28
v6.12.29
v6.12.30
v6.12.31
v6.12.32
v6.12.33
v6.12.34
v6.12.35
v6.12.36
v6.12.37
v6.12.38
v6.12.39
v6.12.40
v6.12.41
v6.12.42
v6.12.43
v6.12.44
v6.12.45
v6.12.46
v6.12.47
v6.12.48
v6.12.49
v6.12.50
v6.12.51
v6.12.52
v6.12.53
v6.12.54
v6.12.55
v6.12.56
v6.12.57
v6.12.58
v6.12.59
v6.12.60
v6.12.61
v6.12.62
v6.12.63
v6.12.64
v6.12.65
v6.12.66
v6.12.67
v6.12.68
v6.12.69
v6.12.70
v6.12.71
v6.12.72
v6.12.73
v6.12.74
v6.12.75
v6.12.76
v6.12.77
v6.12.78
v6.12.79
v6.12.80
v6.12.81
v6.12.82
v6.12.83
v6.12.84
v6.12.85
v6.12.86
v6.12.87
v6.12.88
v6.12.89
v6.12.90
v6.12.91
v6.12.92
v6.12.93
v6.12.94
v6.12.95
v6.12.96
v6.12.97
v6.12.98
v6.12.99
v6.13.10
v6.13.11
v6.13.12
v6.13.4
v6.13.5
v6.13.6
v6.13.7
v6.13.8
v6.13.9
v6.6.100
v6.6.101
v6.6.102
v6.6.103
v6.6.104
v6.6.105
v6.6.106
v6.6.107
v6.6.108
v6.6.109
v6.6.110
v6.6.111
v6.6.112
v6.6.113
v6.6.114
v6.6.115
v6.6.116
v6.6.117
v6.6.118
v6.6.119
v6.6.120
v6.6.121
v6.6.122
v6.6.123
v6.6.124
v6.6.125
v6.6.126
v6.6.127
v6.6.128
v6.6.129
v6.6.130
v6.6.131
v6.6.132
v6.6.133
v6.6.134
v6.6.135
v6.6.136
v6.6.137
v6.6.138
v6.6.139
v6.6.140
v6.6.141
v6.6.142
v6.6.143
v6.6.144
v6.6.145
v6.6.146
v6.6.147
v6.6.148
v6.6.149
v6.6.150
v6.6.151
v6.6.152
v6.6.153
v6.6.154
v6.6.155
v6.6.156
v6.6.157
v6.6.158
v6.6.159
v6.6.81
v6.6.82
v6.6.83
v6.6.84
v6.6.85
v6.6.86
v6.6.87
v6.6.88
v6.6.89
v6.6.90
v6.6.91
v6.6.92
v6.6.93
v6.6.94
v6.6.95
v6.6.96
v6.6.97
v6.6.98
v6.6.99

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98570.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.14.0
Fixed
7.2.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98570.json"