{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72250 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72250 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72250 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72250 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72250 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72250/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72250/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72250","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72250/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72250","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-72250","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72250","GHSA-9f37-2xqv-pf7f","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72250"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A missing guard in Linux kernel IPv6 defragmentation causes an invalid MAC header offset, leading to potential kernel crashes or memory corruption.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag\n\nnf_ct_frag6_reasm() slides the packet head forward to drop the IPv6\nfragment header and then unconditionally advances skb-\u003emac_header:\n\n\tskb-\u003emac_header += sizeof(struct frag_hdr);\n\nOn the NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT defrag path the skb has no link-layer header\nyet, so skb-\u003emac_header is still the \"not set\" sentinel (u16)~0U. Adding\nsizeof(struct frag_hdr) wraps it to a small value (0xffff + 8 == 7),\nafter which skb_mac_header_was_set() wrongly reports a MAC header is\npresent and skb_mac_header() points into the headroom.\n\nThe reassembler has done this unconditional add since it was introduced;\nit was harmless while mac_header was a bare pointer, but wrong once\nmac_header became a u16 offset whose unset state is the ~0U sentinel\ntested by skb_mac_header_was_set(). The sibling net/ipv6/reassembly.c\ndoes the same relocation and does guard the adjustment; mirror the\nguard here.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag","id":"CVE-2026-72250","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"netfilter: nf_nat_sip: reload possible stale data pointer","id":"CVE-2026-72251"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header","id":"CVE-2026-72249"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-16","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A missing guard in Linux kernel IPv6 defragmentation causes an invalid MAC header offset, leading to potential kernel crashes or memory corruption.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72250/"}