In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access

While the outer IP header is already pulled into the skb head,
we must be careful and revalidate the embedded headers after
reading them from the skb frags to prevent out-of-bounds
access.

One such place reported by Sashiko is ip_vs_nat_icmp() where
local process can change the ihl field and after
skb_ensure_writable() we can see larger value which is a
problem for the ip_send_check(cih) calls.

Add check to drop the packet if the ihl field is changed.
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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-788

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:45:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access While the outer IP header is already pulled into the skb head, we must be careful and revalidate the embedded headers after reading them from the skb frags to prevent out-of-bounds access. One such place reported by Sashiko is ip_vs_nat_icmp() where local process can change the ihl field and after skb_ensure_writable() we can see larger value which is a problem for the ip_send_check(cih) calls. Add check to drop the packet if the ihl field is changed.
Title ipvs: revalidate ihl to prevent out-of-bounds access
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-26T14:36:56.563Z

Reserved: 2026-08-15T05:44:03.931Z

Link: CVE-2026-74747

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-26T15:16:53.657

Modified: 2026-08-26T15:16:53.657

Link: CVE-2026-74747

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Updated: 2026-08-26T16:30:09Z

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