High [CVE-2026-63920] validate extension header length before copying to cmsg
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-63920 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: validate extension header length before copying to cmsg ip6_datagram_recv_specific_ctl() builds IPV6_{HOPOPTS,DSTOPTS,RTHDR} cmsgs (and their IPV6_2292* legacy counterparts) by trusting the on-wire hdrlen byte (ptr[1]) when computing the put_cmsg() length.
The length was validated only at parse time (ipv6_parse_hopopts(), etc.).
An nftables payload-write expression can rewrite hdrlen after parsing and before the skb reaches recvmsg; the write itself is in-bounds but put_cmsg() then reads up to ((hdrlen+1) << 3) = 2040 bytes from an 8-byte header. nftables is reachable from an unprivileged user namespace, so this is an unprivileged slab-out-of-bounds read: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in put_cmsg+0x3ac/0x540 put_cmsg+0x3ac/0x540 udpv6_recvmsg+0xca0/0x1250 sock_recvmsg+0xdf/0x190 ____sys_recvmsg+0x1b1/0x620 Add ipv6_get_exthdr_len() which validates that at least two bytes are accessible before reading the hdrlen field, then checks the computed length against skb_tail_pointer(skb), returning 0 on failure.
Extension headers are kept in the linear skb area by pskb_may_pull() during input, so skb_tail_pointer() is the correct bound.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 7 days ago·verify at source
- kernel-0:6.12.0-211.63.1.el10_2
- kernel-0:6.12.0-55.111.1.el10_0
- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.173.1.rt7.514.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-553.173.1.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-305.214.1.el8_4
- kernel-0:4.18.0-372.223.1.el8_6
- kernel-0:4.18.0-477.175.1.el8_8
- kernel-0:5.14.0-687.55.1.el9_8
- kernel-0:5.14.0-427.154.1.el9_4
- kernel-0:5.14.0-570.147.1.el9_6
- RHSA-2026:76738
- RHSA-2026:83707
- RHSA-2026:82806
- RHSA-2026:82807
- RHSA-2026:84677
- RHSA-2026:85000
- RHSA-2026:84793
- RHSA-2026:76739
- RHSA-2026:77218
- RHSA-2026:77219
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 7 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: kernel-0:6.12.0-211.63.1.el10_2, kernel-0:6.12.0-55.111.1.el10_0, kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.173.1.rt7.514.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-553.173.1.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-305.214.1.el8_4, kernel-0:4.18.0-372.223.1.el8_6. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 7 days ago·verify at source
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