Medium [CVE-2026-58058] Denial of Service via crafted IPv6 response
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-58058 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
Nmap through 7.99 does not keep the IPv6 extension-header walk within the captured packet in ipv6_get_data_primitive (libnetutil/netutil.cc), so the pointer advances past the buffer and the remaining-length computation underflows to a large value.
A scanned target or on-path attacker returning a crafted IPv6 response with a truncated extension header can trigger out-of-bounds reads and a crash during raw IPv6 scans. A flaw was found in Nmap.
This can lead to an integer underflow, causing out-of-bounds reads and a denial of service (DoS) due to a crash during raw IPv6 scans. Red Hat rates this flaw as Moderate rather than the AI-assigned Important severity.
The Aegis AI-Bot rated UI:N (no user interaction), but nmap is a command-line scanning tool that an operator must manually invoke — initiating a scan is user interaction per the CVSS definition of UI:R. Correcting UI:N to UI:R reduces the CVSS from 7.5 to 6.5, aligning with the upstream CVEORG assessment.
Weakness: CWE-125. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: nmap.
- 7.99
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
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