CVE-2026-98096

Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ad7dca5e03bd64c65983a19734337512fd75491 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975b5b067f525a1b1338c4a3bee1c46545801518 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97b21ef57dfabbff660a4672c9fef7edfb720f47 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce4c8beedc19aceeab0e7bdc6f34394fb158c47c 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-98096.json.

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          "product": "Linux",
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            "net/ipv6/exthdrs.c"
          ],
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            "net/ipv6/exthdrs.c"
          ],
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          "vendor": "Linux",
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              "status": "affected",
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              "version": "6.18.53",
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            },
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              "version": "7.2.7",
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            },
            {
              "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "7.3-rc2",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
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        }
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        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: sr: restore network header before routing and forwarding\n\nipv6_srh_rcv() runs with skb->data at the Segment Routing Header (SRH)\nwhile skb_network_header() points at the IPv6 header.\n\nWhen segments_left > 0, ipv6_srh_rcv() previously restored the skb->data\nposition by pushing sizeof(struct ipv6hdr), assuming the SRH immediately\nfollowed the fixed IPv6 header. If another extension header (such as a\nHop-by-Hop options header) precedes the SRH, skb_network_offset()\nremained negative.\n\nThis led to two problems:\n1. During ip6_route_input(), fib6_rules_early_flow_dissect() invokes\n   __skb_flow_dissect() which passes the negative skb_network_offset()\n   to flow dissection, breaking BPF and C flow dissector logic.\n2. If forwarded via ip6_forward() or redirected via act_mirred, downstream\n   handlers (like sch_fragment() or neighbour output) pass the negative\n   offset as an unsigned length, triggering OOB memcpy or buffer overflows.\n\nFix this by pushing -skb_network_offset(skb) before routing, ensuring\nskb_network_offset(skb) is 0 for route lookup / flow dissection as well as\ndownstream forwarding. On the loopback path, pull skb_transport_offset(skb)\nto restore skb->data to the SRH before looping back."
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            "baseScore": 7.4,
            "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
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            {
              "lang": "en",
              "value": "AV:N - The bad input is a routed IPv6 packet sent by a remote host: a Hop-by-Hop header followed by an SRH with segments_left>0. ipv6_srh_rcv() processes it on receive, and its fixed skb_push(sizeof(struct ipv6hdr)) leaves skb_network_offset() negative before ip6_route_input() and dst_input() forward the packet.\nAC:H - ipv6_srh_rcv() drops the packet unless seg6_enabled, which defaults to 0, is set both in devconf_all and on the ingress interface. The out-of-bounds memcpy in sch_frag_prepare_frag() also needs the admin to have set up tc act_ct with an MRU plus act_mirred on the forwarding path. The remote attacker cannot set up either of these.\nPR:N - No authentication is needed to send the packet. seg6_hmac_validate_skb() accepts SRHs that carry no HMAC TLV when seg6_require_hmac is at its default of 0, so an unauthenticated sender reaches the segments_left>0 branch.\nUI:N - No victim action is needed. The router processes the attacker's SRH packet in softirq receive context as soon as it arrives.\nS:U - The corruption stays inside the router's own kernel (skb metadata, then the per-CPU sch_frag_data_storage and memory after it). No VM, IOMMU or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:N - With the negative offset, the flow dissector and the neighbour output path read or write inside the skb head, and the bytes sch_frag reads out of bounds go into per-CPU storage. I found no path that sends kernel memory back to the attacker.\nI:H - sch_frag_prepare_frag() takes the negative skb_network_offset() as unsigned hlen and runs memcpy(&data->l2_data, skb->data, hlen). That writes packet bytes the attacker supplied past the per-CPU sch_frag_data_storage buffer, an out-of-bounds kernel write.\nA:H - The roughly 4 GB memcpy in sch_frag_prepare_frag() will fault and crash the router. On other paths the negative offset breaks flow dissection and garbles forwarded packets. The attacker can repeat this with each crafted packet."
            }
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        "dateUpdated": "2026-09-25T14:42:04.399Z",
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        "shortName": "Linux"
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          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975b5b067f525a1b1338c4a3bee1c46545801518"
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    "assignerShortName": "Linux",
    "cveId": "CVE-2026-98096",
    "datePublished": "2026-09-25T10:24:27.098Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:19:56.076Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-09-25T14:42:04.399Z",
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