CVE-2026-72250 — netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag

Affected: Linux

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

netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag

nf_ct_frag6_reasm() slides the packet head forward to drop the IPv6 fragment header and then unconditionally advances skb->mac_header:

skb->mac_header += sizeof(struct frag_hdr);

On the NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT defrag path the skb has no link-layer header yet, so skb->mac_header is still the "not set" sentinel (u16)~0U. Adding sizeof(struct frag_hdr) wraps it to a small value (0xffff + 8 == 7), after which skb_mac_header_was_set() wrongly reports a MAC header is present and skb_mac_header() points into the headroom.

The reassembler has done this unconditional add since it was introduced; it was harmless while mac_header was a bare pointer, but wrong once mac_header became a u16 offset whose unset state is the ~0U sentinel tested by skb_mac_header_was_set(). The sibling net/ipv6/reassembly.c does the same relocation and does guard the adjustment; mirror the guard here.

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CVE-2026-72250 — netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag