CVE-2026-98306

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

seg6: set IPSKB_L3SLAVE from IP6SKB_L3SLAVE on IPIP decapsulation

When an SRv6 packet arrives on an interface enslaved to a VRF, vrf_ip6_rcv() sets IP6SKB_L3SLAVE in IP6CB, but decap_and_validate() has never set IPSKB_L3SLAVE in IPCB. The bit stayed clear in the common case, and with CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6 the leftover frag_max_size of a reassembled outer packet could even set it, with no VRF involved. Commit 44930446dde4 (ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation) then made the unreliable bit reliably clear.

The effect of the missing flag is visible with End.DX4 when a delivery to a local address of the node reaches the socket lookup. For example, a UDP socket bound to the enslaved ingress interface does not receive any of the decapsulated packets, while an unbound socket outside the VRF does. This contradicts Documentation/networking/vrf.rst: by default the scope of an unbound UDP or TCP socket is limited to the default VRF.

Set IPSKB_L3SLAVE for IPv4 in decap_and_validate(), which already does the same for IPv6. The socket lookup then matches the decapsulated packet like any other packet received on that enslaved interface. Such a packet matches an unbound UDP or TCP socket only when udp_l3mdev_accept or tcp_l3mdev_accept is set.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d9f5c78903dd25a3556229eb716dd465c5f3573
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5130afa025c95faa621adf8bac525baeb2b290d2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72f410616000d21a0a6ec6c93a60301b9c92e95c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7616242a2b37883f7322aaa1d2bd6cd0fed28315
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c16e1ccc082a3763dfc6bc2d3f658c1a6336f9d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddf60220c925b54a1714c4722fdbdb12833232d0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4d7c52f15f572608374947c6c802052e1a2fc82
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8fb4738ccef5f9d107845b05734a56352747b1a