CVE-2026-99191

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

calipso: keep BIG TCP payload_len in calipso_skbuff_setattr()

calipso_skbuff_setattr() adjusts payload_len by the length of the option it inserts or resizes:

payload = ntohs(ip6_hdr->payload_len);
ip6_hdr->payload_len = htons(payload + len_delta);

GRO can build BIG TCP packets larger than IPV6_MAXPLEN, and stores payload_len == 0 for them; ipv6_payload_len() then falls back to skb->len. For such a packet forwarded to a destination mapped to CALIPSO, the code above writes len_delta (or 65536 + len_delta when shrinking) into payload_len, and ipv6_payload_len() no longer falls back to skb->len. nf_tables, conntrack and sch_cake rely on it.

The same arithmetic also wraps when a packet grows past IPV6_MAXPLEN, and a BIG TCP packet that shrinks below IPV6_MAXPLEN should get its real length back.

Set payload_len from the skb length with ipv6_set_payload_len(), which stores 0 above IPV6_MAXPLEN and the real length otherwise, as ipv6_gro_complete() does. The network header was just reset to skb->data, so skb->len - sizeof(*ip6_hdr) is the payload length.

Tested on one kernel (arm64, QEMU) with SELinux permissive, a minimal mdp-generated policy (network_peer_controls=1), netlabelctl calipso add pass doi:16 and a NetLabel mapping of fd00:2::/64 to CALIPSO DOI 16. calipso_skbuff_setattr() was called through netlbl_skbuff_setattr() from a test-only debugfs hook (not part of this patch) adding a level-only label; payload_len after the call:

case before fix after fix real length 1000, unlabeled 1016 1016 1016 70000 GSO, payload_len 0 16 0 70016 65530 GSO, grows past MAXPLEN 10 0 65546 65540 GSO with a 24 byte hop header, shrinks below MAXPLEN 65528 65532 65532 1000 with a 24 byte hop header 992 992 992

(0 means ipv6_payload_len() returns the real length.) On the forward path, with a client injecting unlabeled UDP through a router to a server, the router adds the CALIPSO option and the server delivers all datagrams (Udp6InDatagrams 5, Ip6InTruncatedPkts 0) with this patch.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9fcfca51e3c5cd46dd72a4da74d56eff183513
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8070ed578b6b9134e045627fb745c887a806d46e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ee0e03663826a76507048d58466b29321a57656
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/929dc8e2c9165bb651dca26b2c68067a3880406b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e29d0a00c619ac794b05d64f4438204478137365