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CVE-2026-45850

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: skip ipv6 extension headers for csum checks Protocol checksum validation fails for IPv6 if there are extension headers before the protocol header. iph->len already contains its offset, so use it to fix the problem.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 2.6.28 → 5.10.259
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.210
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.176
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.36
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.4
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.143
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.94

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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