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CVE-2026-97984

net: ipv6: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU

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

net: ipv6: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU

This commit bounds cork->base.fragsize to IP6_MAX_MTU for UDP sockets to
avoid a possible overflow of UDP length that triggers a WARN in
udp_set_len_short when setsockopt IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER is set to
IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO or IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE, and a large packet is sent over
a netdev with an unusually large MTU.

Steps to reproduce (included in the new selftest):

1. Set device MTU bigger than IP6_MAX_MTU. cork->base.fragsize will be
   set to that MTU in ip6_setup_cork.
2. Set IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER to IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE or IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO. It
   lets maxnonfragsize be set to device MTU (cork->fragsize) in
   __ip6_append_data, rather than to IP6_MAX_MTU.
3. Send 65528 bytes of payload (+8 bytes of UDP header, +40 bytes of
   IPv6 header). Device MTU allows it (it's only one byte bigger than
   IP6_MAX_MTU, and the device MTU is bigger than that).
4. The UDP length in the built packet is 65536, which overflows the
   16-bit length field and triggers the WARN in udp_set_len_short.

To avoid breaking sending UDP jumbograms over raw IPv6 sockets, limit
the change to UDP sockets only.

The original overflow bug with IPv6 and IPV6_PMTUDISC_DO seems to
predate git history (verified reproduction on 2.6.21), was fixed later,
and then reappeared in commit 427faee167bc ("net: ipv6: introduce
ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward"), which is chosen as the Fixes tag here. The
overflow with IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE reproduces since its introduction in
commit 628a5c561890 ("[INET]: Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_RPOBE").
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Version 427faee167bce4ccb0b22f6815a9ac509e31d4c3
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Version 427faee167bce4ccb0b22f6815a9ac509e31d4c3
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Version 5.15
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Version 6.6.158
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Version 6.12.111
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Version 6.18.53
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Version 7.2.7
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d56a00ec91f2885c64ea5b8cea18cb746b91bbb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce66352d3eb21825410af8b91db7cc4bb8e22c98
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e01b7c176d9af2b7c22bb3fe12cf9a7904f99fdc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ae10b6be49b425827659b23bcce498f80eb7182
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dd562f3019019ffdf4b396570613053facda9ee