Critical · published August 15, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: widen NAT rewrite delta to s32 in sip_help_tcp()
sip_help_tcp() stores the size change of each NAT-rewritten SIP message
in s16 diff and accumulates it in s16 tdiff, but a single message can
grow by more than S16_MAX while the packet stays under the 65535
enlarge_skb() limit: nf_nat_sip() rewrites every matching URI, and a long
Contact list expands the message by tens of kilobytes. diff then wraps,
and "datalen = datalen + diff - msglen" yields a huge unsigned datalen,
so the next iteration's ct_sip_get_header() reads past the linearized skb
tail.
Widen diff, tdiff and the seq_adjust hook to s32. Both are bounded by the
65535 byte packet limit, and the seqadj core is already s32
(nf_ct_seqadj_set() takes s32), so no previously accepted input is
rejected.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ct_sip_get_header (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c:464)
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888010800000 by task ksoftirqd/1/25
ct_sip_get_header (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c:464)
sip_help_tcp (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c:1694)
nf_confirm (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c:183)
nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
ip6_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:246)
ip6_forward (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:690)
ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:351)
__netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6212)
process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6676)
__napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7735)
net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7955)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
run_ksoftirqd (kernel/softirq.c:1076)
...