CVE-2026-80603
CVE CVE-2026-80603EUVD EUVD-2026-67479Published 2026-08-28T06:48:29.000ZLast changed 2026-08-29T06:21:14.000ZCVSS 9.1
What the advisory describes
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: fix parse_dcc() off-by-one OOB read parse_dcc() treats data_end as an inclusive end pointer, but its only caller passes data_limit = ib_ptr + datalen, which points one past the last valid byte. The newline search loop iterates while tmp <= data_end, so when no newline is present, *tmp is read at tmp == data_end, one byte beyond the region filled by skb_header_pointer(). irc_buffer is kmalloc'd as MAX_SEARCH_SIZE + 1 bytes and datalen is capped at MAX_SEARCH_SIZE, so the stray read does not fault. The byte is uninitialized or stale; if it contains an ASCII digit, simple_strtoul will consume it and produce a wrong DCC IP or port in the conntrack expectation. The extra allocation byte is also a fragile guard: if the cap or allocation size changes, this becomes a real out-of-bounds read. Change the loop and its post-loop check to use strict less-than, consistent with the caller's exclusive-end convention. Update the function comment accordingly.
Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.
Products the advisory names
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- Linux — Linux 2.6.12; patch: 5.10.261; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <2393f0bd7a467ad475598f3a5b9de27ca36e3037; patch: 0; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <2b70f61f569bb29acb380e6f616a1bbdee15668f; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <eeef3b81f449560653662df2dde6f6fe247c5365; patch: 6.12.97; patch: 6.6.145; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <aff589556ed772cb1c0c2d7b4d91ec45c0c39416; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <abb8c32b88ea3f46beb68c34fe9a3ac8ed664e7e; patch: 6.18.40; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <ef6400ca25a13fd6dedbe8ef4a1d0979bbbfe88a; patch: 5.15.212; patch: 7.2; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <437e0a3854b3a44ec15afa9ab88ec215adf3a2fd; patch: 6.1.178; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <910c33e4a8c046c3cc1fa5a465a4d41a1bb398f1; patch: 7.1.5
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- Linux — Linux
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