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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-13 | Published 2026-05-27 | Updated 2026-06-01 | Assigner Linux




HIGH: 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 6268f01ae989013671b526c883e92655342c6f6f
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 9aafba2f49e1fcccc2018816f5836a609c925879
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 335957df4ed60f02a2ec0432fbedbf0cc7241d8b
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 37537e42e6df387398bee85cb85070cc80bb1e10
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 4cefe32639933d652614b0bd50f818f9af4af78f
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 0511ecb00e61bf28e2fec4bb41fcce385c3a3b2d
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before d42bec6e4f6d6d658be365539400b3314b76b2a7
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (git) before 4c1367a2d7aad643a6f87c6931b13cc1a25e8ca7
affected

Default status
affected

2.6.12
affected

Any version before 2.6.12
unaffected

5.10.258 (semver)
unaffected

5.15.209 (semver)
unaffected

6.1.175 (semver)
unaffected

6.6.141 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.91 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.33 (semver)
unaffected

7.0.10 (semver)
unaffected

7.1-rc1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/6268f01ae989013671b526c883e92655342c6f6f

git.kernel.org/...c/9aafba2f49e1fcccc2018816f5836a609c925879

git.kernel.org/...c/335957df4ed60f02a2ec0432fbedbf0cc7241d8b

git.kernel.org/...c/37537e42e6df387398bee85cb85070cc80bb1e10

git.kernel.org/...c/4cefe32639933d652614b0bd50f818f9af4af78f

git.kernel.org/...c/0511ecb00e61bf28e2fec4bb41fcce385c3a3b2d

git.kernel.org/...c/d42bec6e4f6d6d658be365539400b3314b76b2a7

git.kernel.org/...c/4c1367a2d7aad643a6f87c6931b13cc1a25e8ca7

cve.org (CVE-2026-45843)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-45843)

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