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CVE-2026-45843

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length slhc_uncompress() parses a …

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: slip: bound decode() reads against the compressed packet length slhc_uncompress() parses a VJ-compressed TCP header by advancing a pointer through the packet via decode() and pull16(). Neither helper bounds-checks against isize, and decode() masks its return with & 0xffff so it can never return the -1 that callers test for -- those error paths are dead code. A short compressed frame whose change byte requests optional fields lets decode() read past the end of the packet. The over-read bytes are folded into the cached cstate and reflected into subsequent reconstructed packets. Make decode() and pull16() take the packet end pointer and return -1 when exhausted. Add a bounds check before the TCP-checksum read. The existing == -1 tests now do what they were always meant to.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.12.1 before 5.10.258
from 5.11 before 5.15.209
from 5.16 before 6.1.175
from 6.2 before 6.6.141
from 6.7 before 6.12.91
from 6.13 before 6.18.33

Weakness classification

CWE-126

References