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Advisory severityMedium5.5Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-68354] Fix fragmented datagram reassembly

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68354 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firewire: net: Fix fragmented datagram reassembly fwnet_frag_new() keeps a sorted list of received fragments for a partial datagram. When a new fragment is adjacent to an existing fragment, the code checks whether the new fragment also closes the gap to the next or previous list entry.

Those neighbor lookups currently assume that the current fragment always has a real next or previous fragment. At a list edge, the next or previous entry is the list head, not a struct fwnet_fragment_info.

The gap checks also compare against the old edge of the current fragment instead of the edge after adding the new fragment. As a result, a fragment that bridges two existing ranges may leave two adjacent ranges unmerged, so fwnet_pd_is_complete() can miss a complete datagram.

Check for the list head before looking up the neighboring fragment, and compare the neighbor against the new fragment's far edge when deciding whether to merge all three ranges. This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by manual source review.

A flaw was found in the FireWire (IEEE 1394) networking driver in the Linux kernel. The fragmented datagram reassembly logic in `fwnet_frag_new()` incorrectly handles list edges and merging of adjacent fragments.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

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Fixed versions

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Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • To mitigate this issue, prevent the firewire_net module from loading. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for instructions.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 days ago·verify at source

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