CVE-2026-98493 (GCVE-0-2026-98493)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:16 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:38
VLAI
Title
net: ipconfig: bound DHCP option construction
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipconfig: bound DHCP option construction ic_dhcp_init_options() appends the hostname (option 12), vendor-class (option 60) and client-ID (option 61) options into the fixed 312-byte bootp_pkt.exten[] buffer. Only the client-ID branch checked the remaining space; the hostname and vendor-class writes were unbounded. A 64-byte hostname together with the maximum 252-byte dhcpclass= identifier needs 18 + (2 + 64) + (2 + 252) = 338 of the 312 available bytes even before the terminating END marker, so the vendor-class memcpy runs past the end of exten[]. With CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE this is reported as a field-spanning write and, when the kernel is booted with panic_on_warn=1, aborts boot with a panic. Route the optional options through a common helper that makes sure the option, its 2-byte header and the END marker all fit and drops an option that would not. Configurations with short options keep sending exactly the same bytes as before.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < e0a221cec0e0ee437680ae0314a4b166509442c5 (git)
Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < ca811550b9fa87e02845b4a332d194c2304d933f (git)
Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < d8016c82acdd7eaa462e1f38a962b15d8c6a650b (git)
Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < 38a6a118260ebfc82d0c653194d616bdfbd236ac (git)
Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < abcba6f080c63e403037ecdffde43170d242376a (git)
Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < 24e79508b237dd2a69bc6fb6ac5cf7f126178307 (git)
Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < cbaad2922bd5d4d303055ae9afecc8999e6b40c9 (git)
Affected: 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 , < e47a1958e12abc3a17b5231a4f21c8f1bf662e08 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.36
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.36 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.273 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.224 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.55 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.9 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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